Harlow's Experiment and My life

Infant Children most always feels very secure with their mother or guardian. When carrying for a child you always have to give them their basic requirements, but you also have to show them love and affection. Love and affection can have more affect on a child than just giving them basic needs. In my psychology class, we talked about a psychologist named Harry F. Harlow. He performed an experiment at the University of Wisconsin which was on the mother/ child bond with monkeys. I will review some of that experiment and explain how this experiment was very true within my life.

Harry F. Harlow was an American Psychologist who studied human behavior and development through studies of social behavior of monkeys. Harlow got his BA and PhD of Psychology from Stanford University. Then, later on got a job and did his studies at the University of Wisconsin. Harlow’s experiment consisted of young monkeys being separated from their mother right after birth. Then, the monkeys were raised in the laboratories which had mothers that were made up of wired mesh and another with wood and a terry cloth. When the infant monkeys were placed in the cage with only one mother was equipped with a nipple which was the wired mesh mother. It was placed so the infant monkey could nurse. Even though the wired monkey had nourishment, the young monkey would most often cling to the terry cloth mother. Harlow would place a monkey inside a cage. Then, began to make loud noises against the cage or play recordings that made the monkey feel insecure. The monkey always seemed to go toward the terry cloth mother as it began to get scared. The infant monkey would go for comfort, but eventually would get nourishment from the wired mother.

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...experiment was done instead of imaging it.

We know that these things are important because children need basic needs, but also need to be shown love and affection. Harry Harlow showed on his experiment how true basic needs and affection have on animals and humans. Every child in the world needs to experience these things in life, but I know they do not. Maybe of ever kid in the world got attention like they are supposed too things would be a lot different. Kids don’t always want just basic needs they want to know that their loved too. This is one of the most interesting experiments that I learned about in my psychology class which was awesome.

Works Cited

Schultheis, E. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/harlow.htm

Harlow, H. F. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.lphslibrary.org/uploads/7/2/9/6/7296009/harlow_nature_of_love.pdf