GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Question
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Feeding and nourishment do not create attachment; contact comfort is more important.
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Nourishment creates attachment.
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Feeding and contact comfort createattachments.
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Contact comfort is not important at all.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Harlow’s monkey experiment disproved the belief that love is only based on physical needs. The fact that the monkeys grew the most attached to the cloth mother, who satisfied no physical needs of the monkeys, showed that love and comfort were non-physical needs.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The behavioral theory of attachment suggests that an infant would form an attachment with a caregiver that provides food. In contrast, Harlow’s explanation was that attachment develops as a result of needing tactile comfort, such as wanting to touch and cling to something or someone for emotional support.