Aim
To investigate the effects of imprinting on gosling
Method
Field experiment
Procedure 1
Randomly divided the goose eggs
Half hatched with mother goose in natural enviornment (control group)
Other half were hatched in an incubator (experimental group)
Procedure 2
Once egg hatched the two groups were mixed together. He varied the time between birth and seeing an object
Finding
Incubator group saw Lorenz first followed him. Control group saw mother goose and followed her. Found a critical period of 12 to 17 hours