Harlow

Question 1

Harlow study name

Answer 1

Contact comfort

Question 2

Harlow study date

Answer 2

1959

Question 3

Method: Harlow aimed to find out whether baby monkeys would prefer

Answer 3

a food source or a comfort source

Question 4

Method: what kind of study was it?

Answer 4

a laboratory study

Question 5

Method: the monkeys were raised in

Answer 5

isolation

Question 6

Method: the monkeys had

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two surrogate mothers

Question 7

Method: mother 1

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was made of mesh and contained a feeding bottle

Question 8

Method: mother 2

Answer 8

was made of cloth but didn’t contain a feeding bottle

Question 9

Results: the monkeys chose the

Answer 9

cloth mother

Question 10

Results the monkeys only spent time on the wire mothers

Answer 10

to feed then returned to the cloth mother

Question 11

Results: the cloth mother comforted them

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in new situations

Question 12

Results: when the monkeys got older, they showed

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social and emotional disturbance

Question 13

Results: the females were

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bad mothers

Question 14

Results: the mothers were often

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violent towards their offspring

Question 15

Evaluation: because it was a lab experiment

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there was strict control over the variables

Question 16

Evaluation: you can’t generalise the results because

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monkeys and humans are qualitatively different

Question 17

Evaluation: ethical problems

Answer 17

the monkeys were in a stressful situation
they showed signs of being psychologically damaged
they were kept in isoltion

Question 18

Evaluation: why did the study lack ecological validity

Answer 18

because the monkeys were kept in isolation - they werent in their natural habitat

Question 19

Evaluation: can the study be replicated

Answer 19

yes

Question 20

Evaluation: why couldn’t we replicate the study today?

Answer 20

because of ethical guidelines