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MeSH Heading: Imprinting, Psychological
Tree Number(s): F02.463.425.448
Unique ID: D007173
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007173
Annotation: human & animal
Scope Note: 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.
Entry Term(s): Imprinting (Psychology); Imprinting, Psychology
Public MeSH Note: 2020; was IMPRINTING (PSYCHOLOGY) 1964-2019
History Note: 2020 (1965); was IMPRINTING (PSYCHOLOGY) 1964-2019
Date Introduced: 1965/01/01
Last Updated: 2019/01/18

Allowable Qualifiers: classification (CL)

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ethics (ES)

physiology (PH)

radiation effects (RE)

Imprinting, Psychological MeSH Descriptor Data 2026