L9 - Harlow Flashcards
How many Rhesus monkeys were used?
8
How many days was the study conducted over?
165
What were the two types of surrogate mothers?
Wire mesh and soft cloth - 4 monkeys received milk from each but had both in their cage
Observations were made of responses to what stimuli?
Mechanical teddy bear
New room of unfamiliar toys
How many monkeys spent the most time with what mother?
All monkeys spent most time with the soft cloth
Monkeys fed by wire mesh only went for milk then returned to soft cloth
Response to teddy bear?
Clung to soft cloth mother
Response to new room if unfamiliar toys?
Not confident enough to explore unless soft cloth mother was there
Long-term effects in the monkeys?
Free abnormally
Froze/fled when approached by others
Didn’t show normal mating behaviour
Didn’t cradle own offspring
Monkeys could recover from experiment’s effects if?
They spent time with other monkeys before 3 months
After 6 months they couldn’t recover
What other study supports these findings (+)?
Study found 39% of cases that even though baby received milk from mother they were more attached to another figure
Food isn’t more important than comfort, playing
Ethical issues with the study (-)?
Monkeys were traumatised by being removed from mothers
Deliberately scared
Long-term emotional/psychological harm shown through interactions w other monkeys
Generalisation issues (-)?
Monkeys don’t have influences humans do like culture and society
Humans are physiologically different
Humans have more complicated bonding r.gl attachment types
