Harlow’s work was based in a laboratory and was a long term experiment using monkeys. The treatment of the animals was seen as poor and unethical. Certain parts to the experiments could even be called cruel. Harlows work on attachment was based around the theory that attachment was formed to things that provided comfort to the animals, after discovering that they did indeed seek solace in more comfortable items which happened to be either a sanitary pad or its terry-cloth mother. The monkeys were taken completely out of their natural habitats and forced to live whatever way Harlow saw fit which is now not allowed. Since Harlow’s work there have been a lot of changes on experiments including animals and Harlows work would not have been allowed today.…
7. Sigmund Freud- Humanistic Psychologist; his Freudian psychology, emphasized the ways our unconscious thought processes and our emotional responses to childhood experiences affect our behavior. He was the founder of the psychoanalytic perspective, theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflict. He believed abnormal behavior originated from unconscious drives and conflicts. The controversial ideas of this famed personality theorist and therapist have influenced humanity’s self-understanding. His influence on psychology is from the psychodynamic theory, unconscious thoughts, and the significance of his childhood experiences.…
Harlow later in the story conducts an experiment with an infant monkey and its mother that should give him closure about his hypothesis. Without compassion he begins tests, “Anxiety first, shown in trembling and shaking; then come the screams” (311). This examines Harlow and his lack of realization and empathy towards mothers and how they have essentials that are beyond scientific. Slowly though, he begins to show and give in to his inner feelings about mothers. It takes a few experiments for him to realize “Time after time, baby monkeys return. Bad mother is better then none” (312). It took time and cruel methods but Harlow is almost at the…
In the space provided, write the name of the person or term identified by each description. Choose your answers from the list below. Some answers will not be used.…
Harry Harlow was an American psychologist who studied the infants bond with their mother and this theory is called ‘Cupboard love’. In Harlow cupboard theory, infants bond with their mothers because of main provider of food. Harlow’s experiments were mostly based on the studies of animals. First…
Harry Harlow founded a primate lab and started studying how infant monkeys developed when separated at birth from their mothers. He put these lonely monkeys in cages with two dolls. One was made out of wire with a wooden head and contained a bottle for the monkey's nourishment. The other was made of soft foam and covered in cuddly cloth but did not have a bottle. With this setup, Harlow attempted to separate the two things the monkey gets from its mother: nourishment and comfort. The wire mother gave food, while the cloth mother gave warmth and comfort.…
His theory hinged on the universal need for contact. Harlow's famous wire/cloth "mother" monkey studies demonstrated that the need for affection created a stronger bond between mother and infant than did physical needs (food).…
The creation of psychology didn’t just happen out of nowhere. The development of psychology has taken place over the past several centuries, resulting in the creation of great psychologists, philosophers, and students of science. The behavioral process and the scientific study of the mind are known as psychology. Curios minds always wondered how to study and theorize human behavior, but it took psychologists and philosophers to study, analyze, and experiment in order to unravel things. Over the course of time the study of psychology has birthed some iconic people who dedicated their life to it.…
16. What are social roles? What was Phillip Zimbardo’s experiment in relation to social roles?…
This essay will look at the work of two very famous behaviourists. It will consider the differences and similarities as well as give descriptive detail of their actual experiments and see if any contribution was provided to mankind. It will focus on the theory of learning based upon the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning which occurs through interaction with the environment. As this was done by experimenting with animals, it is also necessary to consider the rules and restrictions that are needed to be kept in mind as research ethics applies to any experiments done on any living thing.…
Yes the question is clearly stated in this article. The purpose of this article is to discuss the importance and the existence of experimental laboratories in the evolution of psychology, and why it became its own recognized study of science after much deliberation in the evolution of psychology and its laboratories.…
Hatfield, G. (1997). Wundt and Psychology as Science: Disciplinary Transformations. Perspectives on Science, 5(3), 349.…
Psychology was originated from the roots of philosophy Socrates, Aristotle and Plato asked many hard questions for example how the mind works. “According to psychology historian Morton Hunt, an experiment performed by the King of Egypt, as far back as the seventh century B.C., can be considered the first psychology experiment (Hunt, 1993, p. 1). The king wanted to test whether or not Egyptian was the oldest civilization on earth. His idea was that, if children were raised in isolation from infancy and were given no instruction in language of any kind, then the language they spontaneously spoke would be of the original civilization of man -- hopefully, Egyptian. The experiment, itself, was…
There are many different thoughts on Psychology. I asked two people what they thought psychology is, to see how the answers differ. I asked Deborah DeBlois, whom is my mother. I also decided to ask a fellow student, so I choose my friend Reese Hinds. I choose those to people because they grew up in different generations, and different families. Making the comparison very interesting.…
James McKeen Cattell was a dominant structure in introducing experimental psychology in the United States. His greatest contribution to psychology is his objective methods of study and the thought that psychology should be applied to practical aspects of life. He has been credited as developing an approach to psychological research that continues to dominate the field of psychology. During psychology's early years, most research focused on the sensory responses of single individuals studied in depth; instead Cattell developed techniques that allowed him to study groups of people and the individual differences among them.…