{"id":8226,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/innate_releasing_mechanism_-irm\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:24","slug":"innate_releasing_mechanism_-irm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/innate_releasing_mechanism_-irm\/","title":{"rendered":"Innate releasing mechanism (IRM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A term introduced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/ce6\/people\/A0830309.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/ce6\/people\/A0830309.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Konrad Lorenz<\/a> (1903-1989) into ethology to describe a hard-wired device somewhere in the central nervous system that causes a species-specific sign stimulus or releaser to evoke a fixed action pattern.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"allometry\">Allometry<\/a>, <a href=\"ethology\">Ethology<\/a>, <a href=\"experimental_method\">Experimental method<\/a>, <a href=\"fixed_action_pattern_-fap-\">Fixed action pattern (FAP)<\/a>, <a href=\"growth\">Growth<\/a>, Innate (1)       <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A term introduced by Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) into ethology to describe a hard-wired device somewhere in the central nervous system that causes a species-specific sign stimulus or releaser to evoke a fixed action pattern.&nbsp; See Allometry, Ethology, Experimental method, Fixed action pattern (FAP), Growth, Innate (1)<\/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-8226","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\/8226","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=8226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}