AO3 Lorenz

• Who conducted research that supports Lorenz’s study?

  Regolin
• What did Regolin do?

  Chicks exposed to simple shape combinations that moved
• What were the findings of Regolin’s study?

  Chicks followed the original shape they saw even when exposed to a range of shapes. This supports the view that young animals are born with an innate mechanism to imprint on a moving object
• Who conducted research support for sexual imprinting?


  Guiton
• What were the findings of Guiton’s study?

  Found that chicks could imprint on inflated yellow rubber gloves. Then the chicks tried to mate with yellow gloves
• Why has Lorenz’s observations been questioned?

  Other researchers found that the effects of sexual imprinting could be reversed spending time with their own species
• Lorenz’s study lacks generalisability to humans as mammalian attachment systems are quite different from that of birds. For example, mammalian mothers show more emotional attachment to young than birds.

  They also have very different brain structures