General Psychology Reading Area Community College Fall Online Course 2014 Abstract Harry Harlow is known for his experiments on maternal separation and social isolation of rhesus monkeys. His work emphasized the importance of care-giving and companionship as a vital component to normal social and cognitive development. In his surrogate mother experiment‚ Harlow demonstrated the importance of contact comfort. Baby rhesus monkeys were separated from their mothers and given two surrogate mothers. One made
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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
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Compare and contrast the work of Harry Harlow and Mary Ainsworth on understanding attachment Introduction Contrasting and comparing the work of Harry Harlow (1962) with the work of Mary Ainsworth (1953) on understanding attachment in children‚ shows that attachment is not based in cupboard love (the provision of food by the mother or the primary care giver) but is mainly formed through contact comfort and the sensitive responsiveness to the child’s signals provided by the mother or by the primary
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a developmental psychologist‚ Harry Harlow‚ began a study to determine what makes an infant love a parent. Harlow wanted to prove that it was possible to “prevent or change” the strength of love formed between the infant and mother by changing the mother’s ability to meet the infant’s needs. Due to the fact that Harlow had used Rhesus monkeys for previous studies and that they are biologically similar to humans‚ Harlow decided to use Rhesus monkeys again. If Harlow could prove this‚ he believed
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PERSONAL HISTORY: Harry Harlow was an American Psychologist who came up with a new understanding of human behavior and human development by studying the social behaviors of monkeys. Harry was born in Fairfield Iowa in 1905‚ to his parents Lon and Mabel Israel. As a child Harry had an active imagination and quite often suffered from depression. He grew up in a family with a father as an inventor who didn ’t go so far and with a mother who showed no care or love towards him and that is why he decided
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Infants Harry Harlow conducted experiments on baby monkeys to see how their behavior would develop if they did not have the influence of touch from their mother. Harlow placed new born infant monkeys into a crate with a "wire-mother" for feeding‚ and a "cloth-mother". By observing their behavior he noticed things that were similar to autistic children such as: rocking‚ social withdrawal‚ self-clasping and grooming. He did tests and discovered that the stress hormone levels in the isolated monkeys were
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What happens when you make a baby monkey choose between food and comfort? The Harlows answered this question in a series of primate experiments. Love is important‚ so how will these lonely monkeys function without it? Though the Beatles confidently tell us that ’all you need is love‚’ behavioral psychologists were skeptical that people and animals need--or are motivated by--anything other than food‚ water‚ shelter and sex. Psychologists Harry and Margaret Harlow decided to determine scientifically
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and then let them out together from an upturned box‚ each gosling went straight to its ’mother figure’. Lorenz’ goslings showed no recognition of their real mother. Harlow’s monkeys Harry Harlow did a number of studies on attachment in monkeys during the 1950’s. He stated that monkeys must form their attachments during the first year of life (critical period). His experiments
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Essay. This essay will look at the work of two very famous behaviourists. It will consider the differences and similarities as well as give descriptive detail of their actual experiments and see if any contribution was provided to mankind. It will focus on the theory of learning based upon the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning which occurs through interaction with the environment. As this was done by experimenting with animals‚ it is also necessary to consider the rules and
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Harry Harlow and Mary Ainsworth shared a common interest in attachment. Although their work is different and how they went about doing their experiments there were similarities between the pair as both of them did studies to see how attachment presented itself in different individuals. Harlow’s work was based in a laboratory and was a long term experiment using monkeys. The treatment of the animals was seen as poor and unethical. Certain parts to the experiments could even be called cruel. Harlows
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