by: chloe hromockyj and dylan brown. background harry harlow – experiences as a child and your...
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By: Chloe Hromockyj and Dylan Brown
BackgroundHarry Harlow – Experiences as a child and your attachment to your motherinfluence future abilities to love in life.
Discovery that love and affection are needs just as important as hunger and thirst.
Rhesus monkeys used, previous studies infant monkeys became very attached to cloth pads
Methodcloth mother (contact comfort) wire mother
Study 1: 8 monkeys randomly assigned to wire mother group and cloth mother groupHow much time spent with each mother
Study 2: Placed fearful object in all cagesSee how monkeys with wire and cloth mothers would respond
Method Study 3: (open field test)
placing young monkeys in unfamiliar rooms with objects either wire mother, cloth mother or no mother To test how monkeys would adapt and explore with or without mother present
Study 4: After 6 months separated monkeys from mothers and then reunitedsee whether attachment would continue after separation
Results & Conclusion Experiment 1: Monkeys more
attached to cloth mother
Experiment 2: When frightened, monkeys would run to cloth mother for comfort
Experiment 3: Explore but return to mother for a source of security, without mother would cry and suck thumb
Experiment 4: Once reunited, rushed to the mother, clung and played but did not explore
Historical SignificanceAlthough has been criticized ethically, has been
very significant
Proven that biological mother isn't the only one who can provide love (adoptive aren't, father, babysitter, etc.)
Shows why child abuse victims often still love their abuser
Contact comfort above everything else
Controversy & Recent ApplicationsAnimal cruelty, monkeys in harmful
situationsDo humans share the same love
processes as monkeys?
(Cacioppo & Hawkley, 2003) connection between social isolation and physical health with lonely adults
(Feldman & Eidelman, 1998) importance of skin to skin contact in development of premature babies
Pictures / Videohttp://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Harlow/love.ht
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http://youtu.be/CU9jKlNK1Qc