Harlow's Rhesus Monkey Experiments and the Attachment Theory - Children's Rights

An introduction to Harlow's Rhesus Monkey Experiments and the attachment theory.

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[Meresortsitar]

I support fathers' rights and I think they SHOULD be involved in raising children but I cannot see how do these particular experiments and researches prove that even toddlers need fathers?

[evenToddlers]

Bowlby based his discredited theory of 'maternal deprivation' on these experiments. The aim of the video is to show the flaws in this method.

Many thanks for the comment!

Kingsley Miller

[wheresthatcandy]

The point of the experiments was to show that the baby would prefer the texture likened to that of its real mother despite the fact that they received sustenance from another source. Not that an infant runs to its mother when it's afraid.

[evenToddlers]

@wheresthatcandy

Why does the monkey run to his mother?

Kingsley Miller

[BDill03]

I've seen this before. Don't know why they need to do these experiments, common sense should tell you an infant turns to it's mother for protection.

They did it on human babies too years ago.

[evenToddlers]

@BDill03,

The aim of the video, and of this evenToddlers YouTUBE channel, is to make the point that an infant may turn to his mother or father for protection, not one or the other. I hope this makes sense.

Kingsley Miller

[bloom princeton]

i felt so bad for the monkeyyy

[peanutmmss]

thank you for posting that though. it's very enlightening. i hope "dvda4" sees it too.

[peanutmmss]

i didn't mean to make it sound like psychology is never important, as dvda4 seemed to infer... quite contrary, a lot of amazing experiments like Milgram's that, while of course questionable in terms of morality today, explored important questions of human nature with actual human beings. what bothers me is that when it comes to knowing these things, people are more than willing to torture animals ad nauseum, but when it comes to human stem cells everyone suddenly wants to halt the progress...

[MalcolmRichards8]

from Suomi's reference base I discovered that 'between 1961 and 1984 368 papers were published on maternal deprivation' alone. As I understand it, even today, there are researchers in university departments conducting seemingly endless variations on Harlow's grotesque body of work, and in a world bursting at the seams with children who have been separated from their parents, many of whom are suffering from a range of psychopathologies and need help and treatment now.

[MalcolmRichards8]

The emotional effects of separating infant rhesus monkeys from their mothers had already been studied in human infants and described in research journals pre-dating Harlow's work. According to his close colleague and co-animal researcher, S.J.Suomi, Harlow's 'strategy for developing an animal model of a human problem centred on recreating, as faithfully as possible, KNOWN aetiological factors for the human disorder in his rhesus monkeys.' Going over old ground is hardly groundbreaking. Working

[peanutmmss]

cognitive development. but you seem to enjoy being a condescending dick so have at it.  i see you felt the need to tell me i'm not really a psych student not once, but twice! i hope you realize there's a better way of interacting with people. a psych class can't necessarily teach you that unfortunately...

[peanutmmss]

ok forget about the separation. how about being raised in a cold laboratory setting where you are forced to choose between sustenance and comfort. where you have no mother to raise you, only the comfort of a fake cloth mother. the fact that this monkey had no chance of growing up and living any sort of life. there a lot of things wrong with this. it's intro to psych, so child development was not covered in depth. we never discussed object permanence relative to attachment, only in terms of

[peanutmmss]

thank you for reasserting that i am not in fact taking psychology at the moment. this kind of experiment is not responsible for everything we know about human health. in fact, the ethics of this would probably come under fire nowadays. a lot of other psychological experiments involve human subjects and they are just as important. i don't believe in torturing monkeys this way. it doesn't matter how much you feel the need to be condescending about the definition of an experiment.

[MalcolmRichards8]

My synaptic fireworks display is but a mere candle in the wind compared to yours.All those references and roads to hell paved with good intentions. And there was I, a veritable dim-wit, in the blinding light of your intellect thinking, isn't psychology commonly defined as the study of the human mind,of perception,thought,emotion,lea­rning and behaviour?I realise I mustn't look inside the bubble of the animal model paradigm but I sense through the gloom of my senses that the Emperor has no clothes

[dvda4]

Hi Meresortsir, that is not the point of this experiment. If interested in the topic of the benefits linked to positive paternal (father) parenting look up research by Bornstein, 2006; Parke, 2002; Cabrera et al., 2007; Hazen et al., 2010; Paquette, 2004. Each of those is a separate research paper on that topic and basically the finding are that paternal parenting has unique positive influences on children due to the differences in maternal and paternal parenting styles.