Baby Monkey Research Paper

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Harry Harlow wanted to see how a baby (separated from his mother 12 hours after birth) would react without a real mother present. He took a baby monkey and placed it in a cage with two fake mother. One “mother” was made of wire and the other was made of cloth. Some of the wire “mothers” had a bottle attached to it, and some of the cloth “mothers” had the bottle. Harlow was surprised to find that even when the wire “mother” had the bottle, the baby monkeys were still more attracted to the cloth mother. This led to the baby monkeys growing up to become “violet and misguided, with no sense of sexual behavior.” This experiment showed that people are more drawn to love than nourishment, but that they need both in order to lead normal, healthy