Harlow's Experiment

Contact comfort is likely to be a crucial factor in human infant-caregiver attachment.

• True

• False

Harlow’s study supported the view that babies became attached to their mothers because they provided food.

• True

• False

Infant rhesus monkeys were taken away from their (a)   and raised in a laboratory setting.

 Infant monkeys raised without mothers developed ______

• properly

• quickly

• social deficits

• social skills

________ was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys.

• John Smith

• Harry Harlow

• Abraham Maslow

• Harry Potter

The infant monkeys spent significantly more time with the ___________

• terry cloth mother

• wire mother

 The infants turned to the inanimate surrogate mothers for (a)   when they were faced with new and scary situations.

Inanimate means:

• alive

• healthy

• old

• not alive

When placed in a new environment with a surrogate mother, infant monkeys would explore the area, run back to the surrogate mother when startled, and then venture out to explore again.

• True

• False

Having an inanimate surrogate mother did not help the infants.

• True

• False