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Descriptor English:   Imprinting (Psychology) 
Descriptor Spanish:   Fijación Instintiva (Psicología) 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Fixação Instintiva (Psicologia) 
Synonyms English:   Imprintings (Psychology)  
Tree Number:   F02.463.425.448
Definition English:   A particular kind of learning characterized by occurrence in very early life, rapidity of acquisition, and relative insusceptibility to forgetting or extinction. Imprinted behavior includes most (or all) behavior commonly called instinctive, but imprinting is used purely descriptively. 
Indexing Annotation English:   human & animal
History Note English:   65(64) 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
CL classification DE drug effects
ES ethics PH physiology
RE radiation effects  
Record Number:   7351 
Unique Identifier:   D007173 

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