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What is imprinting and what role does it play in the early development of the individual? What is its theoretical importance for understanding the mechanisms of instinct and learning? What is its significance in the development of the young of our own species? This book attempts to answer all these questions.

In recent years imprinting has attracted much interest. This has been in no small measure the result of the admirable writings of Konrad Lorenz. The continued interest in this field of research has been bound up with the realization among students of behavior that imprinting and imprinting-like processes may be highly significant in the ontogenetic development of very many species, possibly including our own. The study of imprinting has become an area of collaboration between zoologists, who were the initiators of the research, and psychologists, who promptly took it up and extended it.

Imprinting and Early Learning is a compendium of the data and experimental reports on the youthful study of imprinting and early learning-a progress report that traces the history of interest in the theory of imprinting and similar processes, considers imprinting side by side with related concepts and empirical studies, reviews the full range of experiments that illuminate the characteristic nature of imprinting, elucidates the relationship of imprinting to conditioning and early learning, and points out the implications of imprinting for work in educational, social and abnormal psychology.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• 1 A Historical Introduction(p. 1)
• 2 Some Concepts and Terms(p. 16)
• 3 Approach and Following Responses(p. 23)
• i Models of parents
• ii Moving objects
• iii Intermittent visual stimulation
• iv Intermittent auditory stimulation
• v Individual differences
• vi Initial attractiveness of stimulus objects
• vii Filial responses and environmental conditions
• viii Approach and exploration
• 4 The Growth of Attachments: I(p. 39)
• i Tests of imprinting
• ii Duration of attachments
• iii Imprinting and socialisation
• iv Courtship fixations
• 5 The Growth of Attachments: II(p. 60)
• i Movement of the subject
• ii The home environment
• iii Imprinting and domestication
• 6 The Sensitive Period(p. 69)
• i Sensitive and critical periods
• ii The time of approach and following
• iii The critical time for imprinting
• iv Restriction of exposure to stimulation
• v The termination of the sensitive period
• 7 Fear and Anxiety(p. 84)
• i The development of timidity
• ii Fear of figure and/or ground
• iii Fear and imprinting
• iv Imprinting, anxiety and primary drives
• 8 Early and Later Learning(p. 96)
• 9 Learning by Reinforcement and Exposure(p. 101)
• i Association and reinforcement
• ii Interaction of imprinting and conditioning
• iii Exposure learning
• iv Imprinting-like behaviour of animals and man
• 10 New Developments in the Study of Imprinting(p. 117)
• i The identification of imprinting
• ii The attractiveness of stimuli
• iii The role of auditory stimulation
• iv The development of attachments
• v Social and sexual imprinting
• 11 Influence of Early Experience(p. 130)
• i Early experience and learning
• ii The effects of early stimulation
• iii Early social influences
• 12 Imprinting and Developmental Psychology(p. 139)
• i Imprinting and human behaviour
• ii Choosing between the novel and the familiar
• iii Explaining the ontogeny of attachments
• References(p. 152)
• Index(p. 177)

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Wladyslaw Sluckin was one of the first professors of psychology at the University of Leicester and founder of Contemporary Psychology