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psychology: paper 1:
psychology: paper 1: attachment: animal studies of attachment - Lorenz:
Question | Answer |
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1. when did Lorenz conduct his research? | 1935 |
2. define imprinting | infant follows first moving thing they see bird species (geese) are mobile so follow first moving object they saw |
3. what was Lorenz's procedure? | randomly divided sample of goose eggs where half were hatched in the presence of the mother goose in a natural environment (control group) and other half hatched in an incubator in the presence of Lorenz (experimental group) |
4. what did Lorenz find? | geese followed first moving object they saw hatched with mother = follow mother hatched in presence of Lorenz = follow Lorenz |
5. what was the critical period? | 12-17 hours |
6. what did Lorenz conclude? | process is irreversible and long lasting which could affect mating preferences where they choose a mate with the same object they imprinted |
7. problems with generalisability? | birds are very different to complex humans so cannot fully reflect or explain how humans form attachments as too different |
8. why are some of Lorenz's observations questionable? | Guiton et al (1966) found chickens imprinted on yellow washing up gloves and would try mate with them as adults (as Lorenz said) but with experience they would learn to prefer mating with other chickens so process is reversible |