Imprinting (Psychology)
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The father of ethology and the foster mother of ducks: Konrad Lorenz as expert on motherhood.

30 May 2009 Konrad Lorenz's popularity in the United States has to be understood in the context of social concern about the mother-infant dyad after World War II. Child analysts David Levy, René Spitz, Margarethe Ribble, Therese Benedek, and John Bowlby argued ... Read more...

Arithmetic in newborn chicks.

30 Mar 2009 Newly hatched domestic chicks were reared with five identical objects. On days 3 or 4, chicks underwent free-choice tests in which sets of three and two of the five original objects disappeared (either simultaneously or one by one), each behind one ... Read more...

Predation threat exerts specific effects on rat maternal behaviour and anxiety-related behaviour of male and female offspring.

11 Jan 2009 Differences in the rate of maternal behaviours received by rodent offspring are associated with differential programming of molecular and behavioural components of anxiety and stress-related functions. To determine the degree to which maternal ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Imprinting (Psychology)'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The father of ethology and the foster mother of ducks: Konrad Lorenz as expert on motherhood. 30 May 2009
• Arithmetic in newborn chicks. 30 Mar 2009
• Predation threat exerts specific effects on rat maternal behaviour and anxiety-related behaviour of male and female offspring. 11 Jan 2009
• Facialmetric similarities mediate mate choice: sexual imprinting on opposite-sex parents. 5 Jan 2009
• Geomagnetic imprinting: A unifying hypothesis of long-distance natal homing in salmon and sea turtles. 3 Dec 2008
• Transporting juvenile salmonids around dams impairs adult migration. 29 Nov 2008
• [Selective disruption of memory consolidation in chicks produced by 5'-iodo-2'-deoxyuridine] 30 Oct 2008
• Mom's shadow: structure-from-motion in newly hatched chicks as revealed by an imprinting procedure. 20 Oct 2008
• Kin recognition in zebrafish: a 24-hour window for olfactory imprinting. 20 Sep 2008
• Sexual imprinting on continuous variation: do female zebra finches prefer or avoid unfamiliar sons of their foster parents? 6 Jul 2008
• Stimulus contingency and the malleability of species-typical auditory preferences in Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) hatchlings. 29 Jun 2008
• Different forms of MARCKS protein are involved in memory formation in the learning process of imprinting. 29 May 2008
• Spatial encoding in spinal sensorimotor circuits differs in different wild type mice strains. 19 May 2008
• Sleep: the ebb and flow of memory consolidation. 18 May 2008
• Nest of origin predicts adult neuron addition rates in the vocal control system of the zebra finch. 19 Apr 2008
• Dynamics of a memory trace: effects of sleep on consolidation. 23 Mar 2008
• Up-regulation of microtubule-associated protein 2 accompanying the filial imprinting of domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus). 2 Mar 2008
• Effects of an imprinting procedure on cell proliferation in the chick brain. 28 Feb 2008
• Gene expression profile in cerebrum in the filial imprinting of domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus). 27 Feb 2008
• Developmental emergence of fear learning corresponds with changes in amygdala synaptic plasticity. 31 Jan 2008

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Technical information about 'Imprinting (Psychology)'

Definition: A particular kind of learning characterized by occurrence in very early life, rapidity of acquisition, and relative insusceptibility to forgetting or extinction. Imprinted behavior includes most (or all) behavior commonly called instinctive, but imprinting is used purely descriptively.

Descriptor UI: D007173

Alternative terms: Imprinting (Psychology); Imprintings (Psychology);

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.425.448;

History Note: 65(64)

Technical Notes: human & animal