In a movie a young girl finds that a gaggle of geese follows her wherever she goes because she was the first object they saw after they were born. This is an example of

A remarkable phenomenon in which a newborn creature bonds to the type of animals it meets at birth is referred to as Imprinting.

Key Points

• Imprinting is the term used in psychology to describe any kind of phase-sensitive learning that is learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage.
• It is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior.
• It typically involves an animal or person learning the characteristics of some stimulus, which is therefore said to be "imprinted" onto the subject.

If a young girl finds that a gaggle of geese follows her wherever she goes because she was the first object they saw after they were born. This is an example of Imprinting.