Compare And Contrast Monisha And Musch

Tough centralizes on the notion that children who receives early parental affection and nurture will be less susceptible to the lasting consequences of stress. He identifies the tribulations of Monisha and Mush as a byproduct of an environment that lacks positive childhood nurturing. Subsequently, Tough elaborates on a study conducted by McGill University researcher, Michael Meaney, to demonstrate the effects from an environment with a positive or negative behavior in nurturing. He presents an overview of the experiment by which he states, “When a lab assistance handled a rat pup, researchers found, it produced anxiety, a flood of stress hormones, in the pup. The dam’s licking and grooming counteracted that anxiety and calmed down that surge of hormones. Meaney and his researchers were intrigued and they wanted to learn about how licking and grooming
As apparent in the above text, licking and grooming is a behavior performed by a rat dam or mother, in order to calm a rat pup down after being handled. The sample population included rats that were categorized into two groups, high LG or low LG.
Rats that were licked and groomed often by their parents were placed into high LG, and vise versa. The study focuses on the effects of LG and how this action will affect the pup in the short and long term as it grows into an adult. He explains the results from the experiment from which he presents, “the high-LG offspring excelled: They were better at mazes. They were more social. They were more curious. They were less aggressive. They had more self-control. They were healthier. They lived longer …