How Did Harry Harlow Use Surrogate Mothers?

It was 1957, Harry Harlow was up late at night thinking hard and then it came to him: Monkey’s. What would a monkey do if he had to choose between a mother that fed him and a mother that comforted him. Harry Harlow wanted to make an experiment that tested the importance of a mother’s love for healthy childhood development (even though we all hate our moms growing up). Harlow was an American psychologist who was born in 1905 and died in 1981. He was a very popular psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin. He was also heavily recruited to speak at many organizations and schools about even more than just psychology. He also received that prestigious honor of becoming the president of the American Psychology Association (APA). Harlow was
It is said that the monkeys would not have a problem with connecting to the surrogate mothers because if they were separated at a very early age, then they will have not yet established a close connection to their biological mother. Harlow was also concerned about researching whether the connection is formed because of the infant’s nourishment needs such as food, or if it involves other factors, including comfort and warmth. Within Harlow’s experiment he came up with two hypotheses. The first one was finding out whether the surrogate mother could take place of the biological mother and the second was whether or not the bond between the mother and infant is based solely off of physiological needs. Harlow first separated the monkey from its mother about six to twelve hours after they were born. Soon after, Harlow placed the monkeys in the nursery with the surrogate mothers. One of the mothers was covered with a cloth and one was made out of wire