PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Harry Harlow, Mary Ainsworth, Child Slavery

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

If one was not of noble birth, of the working class, would not have access to formal education. Especially during the industrial revolution; when children became of working age, they were forced to work in factories (child slavery): the most dangerous jobs given were to mines where bombs were set off frequently. Children are viewed as saplings: they are made of the same material just miniature. Children are just small adults so they should work like adults. Freud and piaget argued that children are like caterpillars in that by the time they are done growing they look completely different from how they did in the beginning. Harry harlow was a behaviourist, meaning that he would use animals to experiment upon (e. g. rats). If one was rich enough they would experiment on chimpanzees, which they would tend to breed them. Apparently, in captivity the mothers would lose their maternal attachments to offspring and infant mortality rate was almost 100%.