Lorenze evaluation

Cards (7)

  • Strength: support for concept of imprinting
  • Support other research: chicks exposed to simple shape combinations that moved. Followed the original one they saw most clearly
  • Support view: young animals are born with innate mechanism on moving image that it present in critical window
  • Limitation: only studied on non-human animals so will humans act the same way
  • limitation: only done research on birds so don't know if they will act the same way as mammals
  • Limitation: parens show more emotional reaction and can form attachment after first few hours of birth
  • Limitation overview: research can't necessarily be extrapolated to human population