14/12/20 21 Korent's animal study in attachment
and_newly hatched duckungs poucwed_ him around.
Tharent aumed ro screntip cauy test umprunting
¾ norenr ser up an expenment rnvaiving cutch goose eggs in tuua separate
contral group invalved half of the eggs being ieft to hatch with the
mother gaose
experimental graup involved the haif of the eggs being placed in an
incubator aa that horent is the pust large maving abject they see once hatched
> results from the cantrol group saund that the gosung impunted on and
followed the mother
> resuits from the expenmental group faund that the gasiings imprunted on
and fallowed lorent
2to conclude, the geese fom attachments through imprinting whichis
persistent and irreversuble
Limitations of rosean'
unable to generalse to humansi
onty studued an non -human animais sa cannat appul the findings ca human
since we are unane to conclude that they would behave in exactly the
same way
attachment formation in mammals appears to he digperent to bird species
as mammats rarely impunt
with parents, specifically mothers
^ mammal mothers shaw mare emational reactions to their aprapling with
the added abillty to folm attachments beyand the fifit few hours apter buth
?dlespite some developments being made in the understanding of human
trachments fram Lowenrs srudtes, caution must be appued when drawing
wider canclusians about the results
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daubt casted.on same Lo r e n ' S c a n l u s I ▇ ▇
0ren conciusLon he drew_from ht3 research StLdy w s that exLal
mpunt g sNas_a permanent_preperence
Gutton et al 1966) found that ch CKens wouldmpr nt on yeuLo washi g
up qioves that wcs.she largestmo g bjecktheyfLst saw ▇ bith
and un tun w ud yandmate wlth that_object n cdu ▇ as
redicted by orenz
hawever, G Ltan aL cliSagreedw th re n E S . redLCtLonsSLn a ne
relationshipperSISts and i _reversbie taswLth_e enenceche chickens
Lean ed to mare wLth otherch CKens
thı5 suggestS chat the ppects Op_copunting may n0 be as_pemasnt
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