The Importance Of Contact Comfort Flashcards
1
Q
What did Harlow test?
A
The idea that a soft object serves some of the functions of a mother
2
Q
What did Harlow do in one experiment?
A
He reared 16 baby monkeys with two wire model mothers
3
Q
What were the two conditions?
A
Milk was dispensed by the plain wire mother, the second was milk dispensed by a cloth covered mother
4
Q
What was found?
A
That the baby monkeys cuddled the soft object in preference to the wire one
5
Q
What did his findings show?
A
The contact comfort was more important to the monkeys than food when it came to attachment behaviour
6
Q
What did Harlow observe?
A
That newborns kept alone in a bare cage usually died but that they usually survived if given something soft like a cloth to cuddle
