Family, Friends And Lovers

Harlow gathered 16 rhesus monkeys, placing some with a cloth covered monkey that did not produce food, and some with a wired monkey that dispensed food. With this presence, it was found that the newborns didn’t die as they had the cloth to cuddle. It was found that the monkeys would rather cuddle the cloth covered monkey rather than the wired one which produced food, just to establish a sense of contact comfort, which was much more important for the attachment of the monkeys. Harlow also followed monkeys which had been deprived of a ‘real’ mother at birth and found the wire mother reared monkeys were dysfunctional but those with the cloth covered one didn’t develop normal social

Harry Harlow 's research on monkey 's support 's Bowlby 's theory of attachment as he investigated ‘the nature of human love and affection ' (Cherry, 2016) through monkeys. This shows Harlow 's experiments demonstrated the importance of early attachments, emotional bonds and how attachment increases a healthy development. Harlow 's experiment consisted of ‘two wired surrogate mothers and an infant monkey separated from their mother hours after birth. One of the wired monkeys had a soft terrycloth around it and the other one only had food attached with to it. ' (Cherry, 2016) This was set up to find out which wired monkey the baby monkeys would be attached to more. Harlow 's study showed that ‘the

Addressing the family and friends thematic cluster, four authors conclude the importance of personal relationships. Though varied in their theses, tones, and styles, each article stresses that individuals quality of life can be positively affected by taking time for companions and relatives. Nancy Gibbs, writer of “The Magic of a Family Meal,” beautifully illustrates the benefits of eating with loved ones often, while “The Company Man” by Ellen Goodman demonstrates the negative effects of making one’s profession a priority over one’s personal life and relationships. Marion Winik in “What Are Friends For?” details the variety and opportunities one has to make friends throughout life. Best friends can persevere through hardships and distance as written in “Friends Forever” by Barbara Hagen. Analyzing these articles substantiated that family and friends are essential to a happy life.

Family will be there for you when no one else is. Friends will be there when family is away. If you have many friends and keep your family close, your life will be much better. An example of family and friends would be in the book, “Of Mice and Men”. George and Lenny were friends and went everywhere together. No matter who talked down to Lenny, George was always there to comfort him and stand up for him. This is why having friends is a good thing and makes your life much better. Another example would be in the book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”. After Henrietta’s cells were taken, and her family got mad and started disliking the science community, her whole family kind of grouped together and hated the science community as a group. They stuck together and were there for each other after that. They became closer, and shared their feelings and opinions, while bonding and helping one another out. This shows that family is there for you when no one else may

In 1958, Harry Harlow studied the priorities of these needs in his cloth and wire mother experiments. Baby monkeys separated from their mothers at birth were placed in isolation. Two dolls were placed in the cage, one wrapped in

Further into the research when the terry cloth surrogate got taken out of the cage the monkeys would become highly distressed. The findings of Harlow’s research proved that Bowlbys contention was right, the infant parent bond was based on inmate tendencies and not cupboard love, as when the surrogate mother was placed in the cage with no milk the babies would still be attached. Harlow’s study and research went on for 20 years in which the experiments took on a disturbing unethical approach. He started breeding monkeys and keeping them in separate cages with no visual or physical access to the outside world, ‘when the isolation-reared monkeys grew up, they developed into highly socially disturbed adults” (Discovering Psychology, chapter 5, pg. 209). Influenced by human attachment to abusive parents Harlow wanted to find out if an abusive surrogate would break the attachment, a nasty surrogate mum was used and a blast of cold air from the surrogate was used, violent enough to throw the baby monkey against the bars of the cage. ‘Despite this abuse, the baby monkeys continued to cling and maintain proximity to their monstrously abusive surrogate mother’ (Discovering

To perform this experiment, Harlow separated several monkeys from their mothers at birth, and them made two different monkeys to pose as their mothers. One was made solely of metal bars, but had a nipple so that the monkeys could be fed from it. It would be the one that would provide nourishment. The other was still made from wire bars, but it had a terry cloth draped around it. This would be the one that would provide love and comfort. He also raised some of the monkeys by having them only see one of the two mother monkeys. He found that the monkeys prefered the mother with the cloth around her, despite the other one providing nourishment, and that monkeys that were raised by the cloth mother were better behaved than the monkeys that were raised by only the wire mother.

In chapter six “Monkey Love” Harry Harlow, an American psychologist, wanted to prove that babies prefer a gentle mother over a feeding mother. Harlow chose macaques for his experiment because they are the closest specie compared with humans. The experiment that Harlow conducted consisted of the infant monkeys being taken away from their birth mother, being placed in cages with a wired-clothed mother and a wired feeding mother. The monkeys preferred the clothed mother over the wire feeding mother. The findings of the experiment were over the edge, says Harlow, “We were not surprised to discover that contact comfort was an important basic affectional or love variable, but we did not expect it to overshadow so

Harry Harlow was aware of the controversy post World War II on the role of biological instincts in the development of conduct and emotions and, in response, he presented his "Babyhood and Motherhood project". In this work Harlow bred and raised infant rhesus monkeys in isolation to be their human influence and keep them from spreading infections. Harlow wanted to understand their natural behavior without another’s influence, so he gave the monkeys two inanimate mothers., one made of wood and rubber wrapped in cloth with a light behind her to give off warmth and one made of wire. The warm cloth one which provided contact comfort was the preferred one that the babies clung to.

Harry Harlow began researching the act of attachment or the emotional bonding between an infant and their parent or caregiver (Cacioppo & Freberg 2013). He wanted to pinpoint what led to this kind of bonding, so he chose to research the rhesus infant monkeys since they show many of the same types of behavior as humans. In this research, he replaced the biological mothers with a device made of wire that contained a bottle for feeding times, and another replacement made of cloth that would provide comfort, security and safety. After the infants were removed from the birth mothers and put into the environment with the surrogate mothers then Harlow was able to provide his conclusion. He found that the only time the infant monkeys interacted with the wire device was at feeding time and all other times the cloth surrogate was chosen. In fact, they spent a lot of their time with the cloth

In the textbook, it discusses Harlow’s experiment using monkeys. This experiment is famous in theorizing attachment phenomena. In a prior experiment he did, monkeys that were not with their mothers had issues emotionally and behaviorally unless they had something to attach to. Harlow used monkey’s and two “surrogate mothers”. The two surrogate mothers were wire and wood. One was covered in terrycloth while the other mother

This article written by the University of Oregon explains in exquisite depth and detail the work of Harry Harlow, specifically his famous "Monkey Love Experiments." Harlow spent many years in his University of Wisconsin laboratory dedicating his life to conducting research on maternal deprivation in monkeys. His soul purpose for this experiment was to find the first "causes and mechanisms in the relationships formed between infants and mothers" ("Adoption"). Harlow conducted his experiments by separating two infant monkeys from their mothers soon after their birth and planned for them to be "raised" by two types of surrogate monkey

Harry Harlow was known for his maternal- separation, dependence needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys. He conducted a series of experiments that involved separating baby monkeys from their mothers after they were born, and placing them with surrogate mothers to be raised. Some of the surrogate were made from only wire, while others were covered with cloth. The

The method used in this theory is raising the monkey away from the mom. He separated the infant monkey’s and arranged them to be raised by surrogate mothers. One mother was composed of wire, and the other monkey of wood. Although the wood mother had no milk to feed to the infants, the monkeys would cling onto the cloth mother for comfort. According to Harlow, the monkeys who had soft contact with their mom had different behavioral traits than monkeys whose mother was hard wire.

Today in our lives, we are surrounded by many people. Some of these people we are surrounded by are either people we do not care for, or they are the people that we cannot spend enough time with. These people we enjoy the most of, are either our family or our closest friends. You may think that friends and family are just a like, but they do differ from each other, and without either of them our life would feel incomplete.