imprinting
Hatchling bonds instantly
Imprinting is a rapid, early learning process where young animals form strong attachments—typically to a parent or parent figure.
A duckling imprints on the first moving thing it sees after hatching, usually its mother, but famously sometimes a human or even an inanimate object.
The term extends to any formative early experience that shapes later behavior or preferences: His childhood imprinting on jazz influenced everything he composed.
Forceful foot motion
- embossingRaising designs from surfaces
- pressingRequiring immediate attention
- moldForm-giving container
- dieStop being alive
pattern · marking · engraving · foil · letterpress · printing · seal · logo
Austrian animal behaviorist
- filialOf sons or daughters
- followingComing after another
- ducklingsYoung waterfowl offspring
- goslingsJuvenile waterfowl from honkers
hatchlings · attachment · bonding · parental · maternal · waterfowl · chicks · fledglings
Mind's retention capacity
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
- habituationDiminished reaction over time
- engramStored neural record
- neuroplasticityBrain's self-rewiring ability
acquisition · retention · formative · developmental · cognition · behavioral · association · reinforcement
Heritable expression changes, sequence intact
- methylationAttaching a methyl group
- paternalOf or from father
- maternalOf or like mothers
- alleleGene variant at one locus
chromosome · inheritance · silencing · gametic · DNA · heritable · regulatory · developmental
stamping
Forceful foot motion
- embossingRaising designs from surfaces
- pressingRequiring immediate attention
- moldForm-giving container
die · pattern · marking · engraving · foil · letterpress · printing · seal · logo · texture
Lorenz
Austrian animal behaviorist
goslings · hatchlings · attachment · bonding · parental · maternal · waterfowl · chicks · fledglings · brood
memory
Mind's retention capacity
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
- habituationDiminished reaction over time
- engramStored neural record
neuroplasticity · acquisition · retention · formative · developmental · cognition · behavioral · association · reinforcement · training
epigenetics
Heritable expression changes, sequence intact
- methylationAttaching a methyl group
- paternalOf or from father
- maternalOf or like mothers
allele · chromosome · inheritance · silencing · gametic · DNA · heritable · regulatory · developmental
bonding
Forming close connections
security · nurture · dependence · closeness · affection · maternal · parental · emotional · formative · connection
- developmentgrowth, progress, advancement, expansion, improvement
- memoryremember, forget, recall, memorize, recollect
- animal behavioranimal behavior, instincts, learned behavior, conditioning, social behavior
- animals and humanspets, cats, dogs, pet ownership, companion animals
- animal behaviorsswimming, running, walking, jumping, flying
- bondsbond, corporate bond, corporate bonds, government bond, municipal bond
imprintingtrial-and-error learning
Discovery through successive attempts
unlearning · classical conditioning · operant conditioning · extinction · forgetting
imprintingfading
Gradual loss of intensity
erasure · forgetting · extinction · reversal · dissolution
- imprinting onInstinctive attachment to first figure
impress, impressive, impression, imprint, impressionable, imprinted, imprints, imprimatur, reimprinted