{"id":8191,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/imprinting\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:01","slug":"imprinting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/imprinting\/","title":{"rendered":"Imprinting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In ethology, a rapid early learning of identifying features of parents (filial imprinting) and\/or of mating partners (sexual imprinting). &nbsp;Also considered to be the process by which early experience promotes the development of perceptual mechanisms. &nbsp;It is often restricted to a critical or sensitive period, particularly in birds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"competitive_exclusion_model\">Competitive exclusion model<\/a>, <a href=\"critical_period\">Critical period<\/a>, <a href=\"ethology\">Ethology<\/a>, <a href=\"experience\">Experience<\/a>, <a href=\"exposure_learning\">Exposure learning<\/a>, <a href=\"filial_imprinting\">Filial imprinting<\/a>, <a href=\"learning\">Learning<\/a>, <a href=\"sensitive_period\">Sensitive period<\/a>, Sexual imprinting <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ethology, a rapid early learning of identifying features of parents (filial imprinting) and\/or of mating partners (sexual imprinting). &nbsp;Also considered to be the process by which early experience promotes the development of perceptual mechanisms. &nbsp;It is often restricted to a critical or sensitive period, particularly in birds.&nbsp; See Competitive exclusion model, Critical period, Ethology, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/imprinting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imprinting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}