PSYCH 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: American Psychologist
17 May 2016
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Original place of publication: american psychologist, 13, 673-685: questions addressed in original study: (list the 2 5 most important questions addressed in the original study) Is love a basic need that is as important as hunger or thirst: findings of original study: (list the 2 5 most important findings of the original study) Love grows if a person is associated with pleasurable thoughts or experiences in another person"s mind. The quality and strength of love is capable of changing if a person, i. e. a mother and a baby, cannot provide for the other person. When children are afraid they will seek out the comfort of their mother. The monkey chose the cloth mother over the wire mother, due to the cloth mother being more comforting. The monkeys enjoyed contact when being served milk instead of the bottle. Food received from the wire mother as opposed to the cloth mother caused diarrhea and indigestion.
