Imprinting: empirical basis and theoretical significance

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Imprinting: empirical basis and theoretical significance

Moltz, Howard·1960·Psychological Bulletin

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Gray's claim that in species not born at an advanced stage of neural and motor maturation there is a pre-learning period where conditioning would not be possible was dismissed by Moltz, who argued that imprinting develops independently of conventional reward and thus could not be considered a form of conditioning.
“Such a claim was soon dismissed by American psychologist Howard Moltz, who argued that imprinting develops rather independently of conventional reward, such as food and thus could not be considered a form of conditioning (Moltz, 1960).”
From Back to basics: A re-evaluation of the relevance of imprinting in the genesis of Bowlby’s attachment theory (2022) · cites this paper as Moltz, 1960

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THE ONTOGENY OF EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR**The preparation of this chapter was aided especially by a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation taken at the Delta Regional Primate Research Center of Tulane University and by a special research fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health taken at the Pennsylvania State University. I am extremely grateful to a number of investigators who graciously provided me with unpublished papers and preprints and who patiently answered my questions about their work and opinions. A number of persons active in the field kindly supplied me with thoughtful replies to an inquiry regarding the composition of the chapter. I thank Steven De-Kosky and Jay Poliner for their aid in locating sources. Drs. J. Ernest Keen, William A. Mason, Emil Menzel, Jr., and Howard Moltz provided detailed comments on this chapter for which I am very grateful.
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Authors: Moltz, H.
Affiliations: Brooklyn College (US)
Corresponding author: Moltz, Howard
Venue: Psychological Bulletin
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 1960-07
Volume: 57
Issue: 4
Pages: 291-314
ISSN: 0033-2909 (ISSN-L)
1939-1455
DOI: 10.1037/h0041214
OpenAlex: W2047505028
Cited by: 118
References: 32
Citations by year: 2026: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1
FWCI: 26.79
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Psychological Bulletin (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting
Keywords: imprinting, critical period, animal learning, innate behavior, behavioral development
MeSH terms: Humans, Learning

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