CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

KOHLBERG

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How did Harlow’s research change the way we interact with children?
A
We pick up and soothe our children when they cry.
B
We do not pick up children when they cry.
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Harlow’s experiments offered irrefutable proof that love is vital for normal childhood development. Additional experiments by Harlow revealed the long-term devastation caused by deprivation, leading to profound psychological and emotional distress and even death.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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: -Harry Frederick Harlow (1905-1981) was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys. This has manifested the importance of caregiving and companionship to social and cognitive development.

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