LORENZ

• KEY POINTS OF LORENZ?

  • measured imprinting in goslings
  • controlled observation
  • mother vs incubator and seeing Lorenz
• FINDINGS OF LORENZ?

  goslings naturally divided
• EVALUATION OF LORENZ'S RESEARCH?

  • Guiton
  • real world application
  • extrapolation
• ARGUMENT OF GUITON?

  • chicks + yellow washing up gloves
  • imprinted
  • tried to mate as adults
  • issue of extrapolation
• ARGUMENT OF REAL WORLD APPLICATION?

  • useful
  • support Bowlby's theory that imprinting is innate
  • attached for no food reward
• ARGUMENT OF EXTRAPOLATION?

  • humans and birds differ
  • inappropriate to generalise
  • still useful understanding of difficult to research topic