PSYCH101 Lecture 2: Psychology Week 2 summary of week 2 lecture

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

Document Summary

Monkeys are latching on the only closest thing w/ them which is a diaper. Behaviourists say there should be some sort of preference with the wired monkey instead of the cloth. They find that the monkey preferred cloth monkey over the wired monkey. When frightened, monkey goes with the cloth mother. When cloth mother is gone and wired mother is left, monkey is helpess. Neither mother is there is the same as just having the wired monkey there. Wants to replicate harlow"s experiment but with real babies. The strange situation is what she called it. Babies- new environment with mom in seat, there are toys on the other side of the room. Babies crawl towards toys but still associates mom with it. Then stranger comes and sits on a nearby chair. Baby disengages again and goes back to the toy. Wealthy, switzerland, phd in bio, institute of psychology in paris france.