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Psychological Imprinting: How does it work?

Have you ever met a person who has raised a non-domesticated animal as a pet? It would seem that this relationship would not work out between these two very different species. It is possible though for this animal and human coexist with this relationship and circumstances through the psychological process of imprinting. Imprinting is a specialized type of programmed learning that can be seen in higher animal species (Wikipedia, 2002). When learning using imprinting, animals learn rapidly and independent of the consequences of their behaviors. Imprinting is often used in show animals, such as horses, and cattle because the selected animals have to be able to cope with a high amount of human interaction, not too mention large, loud crowds.
One of the most influential people in the history of imprinting is Konrad Lorenz. Lorenz was originally known as one of the father’s of ethology. Ethology is the zoological study of animal......

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