DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
studied on babies by separating them from their parents to get a reaction
|
|
|
ran a study by separating infant monkeys from their mothers shortly after birth and put then in sanitary individual cages with a cheesecloth baby blanket
|
|
|
assigned 100 temperamentally difficult 6-to 9-month-old to either an experimental group, in which mothers received personal training in sensitive responding, or to a control group
|
|
|
None of the above
|
Detailed explanation-1: -The Harlow monkey experiment was designed to study the effects of maternal deprivation and isolation. Harlow separated the infant monkeys from their natural mothers shortly after birth, and placed the infant monkeys in cages. Some monkeys were near their peers (other monkeys), while some were kept totally isolated.
Detailed explanation-2: -Harlow (1958 wanted to study the mechanisms by which newborn rhesus monkeys bond with their mothers. These infants were highly dependent on their mothers for nutrition, protection, comfort, and socialization.
Detailed explanation-3: -Additionally, Harlow’s work also showed that infant monkeys looked for comfort in the fluffy surrogate mother, even if that surrogate mother never provided food. From this research, we can conclude that infants feel an attachment toward their caregiver. That attachment is experienced as what we know to be ‘love.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Wire Mother Experiment Harlow removed young monkeys from their natural mothers a few hours after birth and left them to be “raised” by these mother surrogates. The experiment demonstrated that the baby monkeys spent significantly more time with their cloth mother than with their wire mother.