Lorenz

• What animal did Lorenz research

  Geese
• What happened to the geese that saw Lorenz when they hatched

  They followed Lorenz
• What is the critical period

  time period in which imprinting must take place or it will not take place at all.
• What is a weakness of Lorens’ study

  Cant be generalised from birds to humans
• what does imprinting often lead to

  Courtship behaviour being displayed
• What is imprinting


  A form of attachment exhibited in birds where they imprint on the first moving object they encounter after hatching