Animal Research BSF

In the research carried out with geese, who took the parts of the mother figure?

• Watson

• Pavlov

• Lorenz

• Skinner

What evidence was there that imprinting onto different objects had occurred?

• Ignored all objects

• Followed natural mother / Lorenz

• Stayed in one place

• Did not imprint

What is the concept of imprinting as studied by Konrad Lorenz?

• Learned behavior to follow any object

• Innate readiness to follow the first moving object

• Random selection of an object to follow

• Conditioned response to a sound

What did monkeys with towelling mothers do more of, according to Harlow's findings?

• Explored more

• Ate more

• Slept more

• Played more

What was the main focus of Harlow's experiment?

• Attachment: Food or Security

• Learning: Reward or Punishment

• Behavior: Nature or Nurture

• Development: Growth or Decline

What is a potential ethical issue in animal studies of attachment?

• Lack of funding

• Separation from the mother causing emotional harm

• Difficulty in training animals

• Animals refusing to participate

What did Lorenz's research with goslings primarily suggest about attachment?

• Attachment is primarily influenced by environmental factors.

• Organisms have a biological propensity to form attachments early.

• Goslings form attachments based on visual similarities.

• Attachments are irrelevant to survival.

What phenomenon did Lorenz observe with the goslings?

• Goslings only recognized their biological mother.

• Goslings learned to follow objects after several days.

• Goslings followed the first moving object they saw after hatching.

• Goslings displayed no preference between objects.

According to Harlow's studies, what did infant rhesus monkeys prefer?

• Novel toys over any type of surrogate mother.

• A wire mesh food dispensing mother.

• A cloth-covered surrogate mother when frightened.

• To be left alone in a cage.

What did Harlow's findings suggest about the needs of rhesus monkeys?

• Food is the most important factor in attachment.

• Comfort is more crucial than food when forming bonds.

• Monkeys do not require any form of attachment.

• Isolation has no long-term effects on monkeys.