ABSTRACT
Moving figures are but one of the many kinds of stimulation that may attract neonate individuals. Precocial birds also respond positively to certain noises, may be attracted by contact, and they seek, of course, warmth. Some new-born mammals approach moving objects ; probably all respond to face-contact by head-turning; some react to the feel of certain textures by clasping the objects that provide it, and soon. An innately determined pattern of responses normally unites the neonate with its mother, or mother-substitute. And with time the attachments thus formed become more or less exclusive. As we have seen, the term, imprinting, initially referred to the formation of attachments built upon approach and following responses. However, there is no special reason why attachments which develop from other initial responses, for example, clasping and clinging, should not also be classed as imprinting.
