CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Harlow attachment theory demonstrated the importance of social contact with the mother and peers for the proper social development of infant monkeys, and the developmental impairment that results from social isolation.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the first, the wire mother had a milk bottle and the cloth mother did not; in the second, the cloth mother had the food while the wire mother had none. In both conditions, Harlow found that the infant monkeys spent significantly more time with the terry cloth mother than they did with the wire mother.

Detailed explanation-3: -Harlow wanted to study the bond between newborn rhesus monkeys with their mothers. These infants were highly dependent on their mothers for nutrition, protection, comfort, and socialization. The behavioral theory of attachment suggests that an infant would form an attachment with a caregiver that provides food.

Detailed explanation-4: -Even when only the wire mother could provide nourishment, the monkeys visited her only to feed. Harlow concluded that there was much more to the mother–infant relationship than milk, and that this “contact comfort” was essential to the psychological development and health of infant monkeys and children.