IGNOU CFN 2 2018 - Briefly discuss the critical periods of growth?

Question

Briefly discuss the critical periods of growth?

07 Mar 2018

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Word Count : 276

The critical period plays an important role in the concept of imprinting, first used by Konrad Lorenz in connection with the earliest process of social attachment in young animals. (However, the term imprinting is also applicable to any irreversible behavioral response acquired early in life and normally released by a specific triggering stimulus or situation.) In the most famous example of imprinting, Lorenz demonstrated that exposure to an appropriately maternal object during a critical period would activate the "following" instinct of newborn goslings: he successfully had a group

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