Which of the following is true about imprinting (choose one and explain)?

Question

1) It may be triggered by visual or chemical stimuli

2) I happens to many adult animals, but not to their young

3) It is a type of learning that does not involove innate behavior

4) It occurs only in birds

5) It causes behaviors that last for only a short time (the critical period)

Answer 1

I would say it were statement one. The famous example of the duckling projecting the 'mother' archetype upon the first animal it sees demonstrates the idea. Something imprinted is learned and internalised, thusly the duckling responded to the stimulus of a moving, living organism (hopefully its mother) and imprinted this stimulus into it's internal physiological instinct to follow its mother wherever she goes for safety.