PSY210H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Harry Harlow, Classical Conditioning, John Bowlby
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In his experiment, both groups of infants spent more time with the cloth mothers, though initially the group fed by the cloth mother spent more time with it than did the monkeys fed by the wire mother. Also found that when infant monkeys were put in an unfamiliar situation without a surrogate mother, they would cower and engage in self-comforting behaviors. Yet, when the cloth surrogate mother was introduced, they would initially cling to it but then eventually explore the room, periodically returning to the cloth mother. Concluded that the cloth mother function as a source of security. Bowbly"s theory of attachment (1953) was initially influenced by several key tenets of. Freud"s theories, especially the idea that infants" earliest relationships with their mothers shape their later development. However, bowbly replaced the psychoanalytic notion of a needy, dependent infant with the idea of a competence-motivated infant who uses his or her primary caregiver as a secure base.
