Imprinting (psychology) - Wikipedia

In psychology and ethology, imprinting is any kind of phase-sensitive learning (learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage) that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behaviour. It was first used to describe situations in which an animal or person learns the characteristics of some stimulus, which is therefore said to be "imprinted" onto the subject. Imprinting is hypothesized to have a critical period. The best-known form of imprinting is filial imprinting, in which a young animal narrows its social preferences to an object (typically a parent) as a result of exposure to that object. It is most obvious in nidifugous birds, which imprint on their parents and then follow them around.[1] It was first reported in domestic chickens, by Sir Thomas More in 1516 as described in his treatise Utopia, 350 years earlier than by the 19th-century amateur biologist Douglas Spalding. It was rediscovered by the early ethologist Oskar Heinroth, and studied ex

Imprinting (psychology) - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kinds of learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage Freud's psychoanalytical model of the soul, referring to his rider metaphor: the head symbolizes the ego ; the animal body the id . Similarly dual, the libido-energy branches out from the id into two main areas: the mental urge to know (up), and the bodily urge to act (down). Both unite in the ego in order to fulfil the needs of the id. This includes judgement of inner/outer reality, leading to experiences by muscle control, which

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