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Imprinting
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Imprinting Developmental learning of a type first brought to scientific attention in studies of animal behavior by ethologists. Imprinting takes place in a given species when behavior phyletically programmed into the nervous system of that species requires a matching socioenvironmental stimulus to release it, when the matching must take place during a critical or sensitive developmental period (not before or after), and when, having occurred, the resultant behavior pattern is unusually resistant to extinction. In human beings, native language learning is a manifestation of imprinting.
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Attention
The ability to focus in a sustained manner on a particular stimulus or activity. A disturbance in attention may be manifested by easy distractibility or difficulty in finishing tasks or in concentrating on work.
Imprinting
Developmental learning of a type first brought to scientific attention in studies of animal behavior by ethologists. Imprinting takes place in a given species when behavior phyletically programmed into the nervous system of that species requires a matching socioenvironmental stimulus to release it, when the matching must take place during a critical or sensitive developmental period (not before or after), and when, having occurred, the resultant behavior pattern is unusually resistant to extinction. In human beings, native language learning is a manifestation of imprinting.
Matching
See pairing.
Extinction
The weakening of a reinforced operant response as a result of ceasing reinforcement. See also operant conditioning. Also, the elimination of a conditioned response by repeated presentations of a conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus. See also respondent conditioning.
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Impregnation
The process of being rendered pregnant by the intromission of sperm into the uterus and the union of egg and sperm.
Impression
Mold made of the teeth and soft tissues.
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Immutable
Long-lasting and unchangeable.
Imperative
The converse of adventive, in the sense of being obligatory in the development of all members of a species.
Impersonator
An actor or person who assumes the personality and plays the role of being somebody else.
Impetigo
A streptococcal or staphylococcal infection that erodes the skin and dries to form a yellow-crusted sore.
Impregnation
The process of being rendered pregnant by the intromission of sperm into the uterus and the union of egg and sperm.
Imprinting
Incest
Sexual contact customarily or legally forbidden on the criterion of the close kinship of the two people, variably defined on the basis of genealogical or totemic descent, or by reason of marriage or adoption [from Latin, incestus, unchaste]. Sexual intercourse between persons to whom it is locally forbidden by law or custom because of their relatedness as kinsfolk to totemic clanfolk. The degree of relatedness varies among societies, and the relationship need not be genealogical.
Inclusion paraphilia
One of the paraphilias in which an extraneous element becomes developmentally incorporated into the lovemap, thus changing it from normophilic to paraphilic.
Incubus
An evil spirit or demon that assumes the form of a male and is supposed to lie upon sleeping people, chiefly women, and to have sexual intercourse with them; a nightmare.
Indolamine
One of a subgroup of biogenic amines; it functions as one of the brain's neurotransmitters. Serotonin is the best know idolamine.
Inertia
In erotic/sexual usage inertia is apathy or lack of responsiveness or arousal at the proceptive phase. It typically involves also the acceptive phase. It is experienced subjectively as lack of desire or drive.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Attention
The ability to focus in a sustained manner on a particular stimulus or activity. A disturbance in attention may be manifested by easy distractibility or difficulty in finishing tasks or in concentrating on work.
Imprinting
Developmental learning of a type first brought to scientific attention in studies of animal behavior by ethologists. Imprinting takes place in a given species when behavior phyletically programmed into the nervous system of that species requires a matching socioenvironmental stimulus to release it, when the matching must take place during a critical or sensitive developmental period (not before or after), and when, having occurred, the resultant behavior pattern is unusually resistant to extinction. In human beings, native language learning is a manifestation of imprinting.
Matching
See pairing.
Extinction
The weakening of a reinforced operant response as a result of ceasing reinforcement. See also operant conditioning. Also, the elimination of a conditioned response by repeated presentations of a conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus. See also respondent conditioning.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Impregnation
The process of being rendered pregnant by the intromission of sperm into the uterus and the union of egg and sperm.
Impression
Mold made of the teeth and soft tissues.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Immutable
Long-lasting and unchangeable.
Imperative
The converse of adventive, in the sense of being obligatory in the development of all members of a species.
Impersonator
An actor or person who assumes the personality and plays the role of being somebody else.
Impetigo
A streptococcal or staphylococcal infection that erodes the skin and dries to form a yellow-crusted sore.
Impregnation
The process of being rendered pregnant by the intromission of sperm into the uterus and the union of egg and sperm.
Imprinting
Incest
Sexual contact customarily or legally forbidden on the criterion of the close kinship of the two people, variably defined on the basis of genealogical or totemic descent, or by reason of marriage or adoption [from Latin, incestus, unchaste]. Sexual intercourse between persons to whom it is locally forbidden by law or custom because of their relatedness as kinsfolk to totemic clanfolk. The degree of relatedness varies among societies, and the relationship need not be genealogical.
Inclusion paraphilia
One of the paraphilias in which an extraneous element becomes developmentally incorporated into the lovemap, thus changing it from normophilic to paraphilic.
Incubus
An evil spirit or demon that assumes the form of a male and is supposed to lie upon sleeping people, chiefly women, and to have sexual intercourse with them; a nightmare.
Indolamine
One of a subgroup of biogenic amines; it functions as one of the brain's neurotransmitters. Serotonin is the best know idolamine.
Inertia
In erotic/sexual usage inertia is apathy or lack of responsiveness or arousal at the proceptive phase. It typically involves also the acceptive phase. It is experienced subjectively as lack of desire or drive.
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