Researcher Konrad Lorenz explored the concept of __________ by making sure that he was the first moving thing a clutch of newly hatched goslings saw. The result, as he predicted, was that the young animals followed him around religiously, clearly

demonstrating their belief that he was their mother.
a. imprinting
b. sensory primacy
c. neonatality
d. the higher species-lower species schism.

Answer: A

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