When the box was removed the two groups separated to go to their respective 'mothers' - half to the goose, and half to Lorenz.įor example, Guiton (1966) using chicks showed yellow rubber gloves to feed them during the critical period and the chicks imprinted on the glove. To ensure imprinting had occurred Lorenz put all the goslings together under an upturned box and allowed them to mix. Lorenz believed that once imprinting has occurred, it cannot be reversed, nor can a gosling imprint on anything else. This process is known as imprinting, and suggests that attachment is innate and programmed genetically. Lorenz found that geese follow the first moving object they see. The other group followed the mother goose. Regarded him as their mother and followed him accordingly. When the geese hatched Lorenz imitated a mother duck's quacking sound, upon which the young birds Half of the eggs were then placed under a goose mother, while Lorenz kept the other half hatched in an incubator, with Lorenz making sure he was the first moving object the newly hatched goslings encountered He took a large clutch of goose eggs and kept them until they were about to hatch out. This process suggests that attachment is innate and programmed genetically. Lorenz (1935) investigated the mechanisms of imprinting, where some species of animals form an attachment to the first large moving object that they meet. Konrad Lorenz's Imprinting Theory Konrad Lorenz's Imprinting Theoryīy Saul McLeod, published 2018, updated 2021
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