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Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361
Kitso
KS 361 times are you happy now librasoul? i had to use the monkey pic
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i would just like to point out that this is not a picture of a monkey humping a robot. this is a picture from harlow's experiment to prove bowlby's theory of attachment. Bowlby challenged the psychoanlytic theories of attachment by claiming that contact and comfort are just as important (if not more so) than feeding in the development of attachment in an infant and it's mother.
In Harlow’s monkey experiment infant monkeys were raised in a cage with two substitute moms, one made of wire and the other of cloth, showed that contact and comfort were in fact important. In the experiment, the monkeys spent more time clutching to the clothed mom, even though the wire mother had the bottle for feeding.
if you look closely in the picture you can see the wire "mother" next to the cloth one.