SOCI 200 Study Guide - Romanian Orphans, Attachment Disorder, John Bowlby
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Chapter 6 independent questions: theories of social and personality development, psychoanalytical perspectives, (a) identify the reported results of harlow and zimmerman"s (1959) studies with the monkeys reared with surrogate mothers. In this study, infant monkeys were separated from their mothers at birth. The experimenters placed two different kinds of surrogate mothers in their cages. The monkeys received all their feedings from a wire mother with a nursing bottle attached. The other mother was cov- ered with soft terrycloth. The researchers found that the monkeys approached the wire mother only when hungry. Most of the time, they cuddled against the cloth mother and ran to it whenever they were frightened or stressed. Subsequent studies with human infants correlat- ing maternal feeding practices with infant adjustment suggested that the infant"s social relationships are not based solely on either nursing or weaning practices (schaffer & emerson,
