Print (psychology)
A impressed (or impregnation ) is in ethology and Psychologie the installation, final, of a bond between an external release and an instinctive behavior. This installation not being ordered by a very specific biological determinism (like family ties, an odor) but on the contrary by circumstances. This experiment and thus to a certain extent an argument of the Behaviorism. By definition the print is the fast capacity of acquisition in a permanent way by youthful of the characteristics of a specific form which will direct the later conduits (emotional tie, choice of the sexual partner…).
This behavior was described by the ethologist, Konrad Lorenz in the Thirties by a succession of experiments, in particular with its famous geese of Lorentz.