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Harlow’s monkeys OFF
Harlow’s monkeys OFFICIAL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| harry harlow | researched attachment in rhesus monkeys in the 1950’s & 1960’s investigated factors influencing the development of attachment studied the role of breastfeeding in infant-mother attachment. He used 8 infant rhesus monkeys |
| method kinda | half of the monkeys were in cages with the feeding bottle on the cloth surrogate and the other half were in the cages with feeding bottle on the wire surrogate - if based on feeding, infant monkeys shouldve preferred to bottle |
| Findings | spent more time with the cloth surrogate regardless same amount of milk and gained weight at the same time ~ 3 weeks, ~ 15hrs a day in contact with the cloth surrogate no more than an hour or two in any 24 hour period on the wire surrogate |
| Findings 2 | particularly evident when they were emotionally distressed various frightening objects on their cages sought first contact with the cloth surrogate |
| Conclusion | contact comfort was more important than feeding in the formation attachment to mother generalised his findings to human |
| Criticisms | sadistic - inducing stress not ethcial - force mental illness cant generalise different species findings |
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