PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Harry Harlow, Toilet Training
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Humans have gotten as far as we have because we are intensely social animals (we want relationships, feel like we are loved, gain power through connections) This desire for social relations is present at birth and is bidirectional, as represented both my maternal instincts and through specific behaviours emitted by the infant. Attachment: lifelong emotional bond that exists between the infants and their mothers or other caregivers, formed during the first six months of life. Harry harlow separated infant monkeys from their mothers at birth and put them in cages containing two inanimate surrogate mothers, one made of wire and one made of terry cloth. Experimenter blows compressed air through changer to blow monkey off cloth mother. Cloth mother fitted with lever to throw monkey across cage. Monkey clings tightly until thrown, waits until bucking ends, returns to cloth mother. Monkey clings until pain is unbearable, leaves porcupine mother, returns to her when spikes retract.
