*Reminder, this week you need only post two comments. Your first comment should be from one of these sites related to developmental psychology:
International Society on Infants Studies
http://isiweb.org
Jean Piaget Society
www.piaget.org
Original Harlow Monkey Article
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Harlow/love.htm
APA's Devlopmental Psychology page
http://ecp.fiu.edu/APA/div7/
10 comments:
the International Society on Infants Studies website is in spanish or something... I can't read it.
I cannot even open the site...
I think that the link is dead
the experiment on the harlow monkeys are interesting.
good experimentation between animals and affection
Its great to see that theres a division 7 to help the research for things that might not get certian publications “Parents'
Responses to Children's Success and Failure:
Differences between Chinese and European
American Parents” i found this in the newsletter for this winter its very interesting in how asian parents and north american parents differ in there response to childerns failures and success, i wonder if its to due with the age of the countries and there tradition that have been past on for centuries The site is http://ecp.fiu.edu/APA/div7/files/Div7NewsletterWinter2008.pdf
I find it really amazing that even though the cloth mother didnt respond back to the baby monkies, they still vlung on and trusted the cloth mother for protection. I guess something that is close to their fur texture is good enough for them to use it as protection. In the open field part of the experiment, there is a picture of the monkey in a room without the mother. He didn't feel threatened so he just fell asleep. They react somewhat like human babies do when there's no one around them. Without attention they fall asleep. It's amazing how similar humans and mokeys are.
What i don't understand,"How can they measure love or how do they do what it is to the point where they can conduct experiment. Also with the monkey they were conducting the experiment based on their effection towards objects but does that mean that they love or they just feel strong. I think the Test for The Nature of love is a bit inconclusive and has alot of wholes and questions that can be brought up
on the CDC website they have a database of stats that tries to project goals and trends on health conditions all the way to 2010. So i decided to see what things look like for adolescents with mental conditions. apart from alot of data being missing it looks as if things such as suicide, eating, and treatment of children with any mental problems seems to remain steady but still cases of treatments for children are rising gently.
Monkey experiment sure is interesting. baby monkies did not even know how their birth mother was looked like becuase they've been seperated from mother right after their birth, but still they had strong attraction to the cloth surrogate mother than the wire one like they already knew how their birth mother would feel like or look like. Kind of simular to human babies' nature to like vibrations? Human babies like vibrations becuase it gives them comfort that they felt when they're inside of mother.
Hopefully this idea that I'm commenting on isn't too tangential. The article on the Harlow experiment as well as the segment about it in the text book begin by mentioning how love is this really emotional thing and so it's not cool to experiment with it (it's not cool with AIDS either so thank goodness for monkeys). But you can't make an omlet without breaking eggs, right? (But, then again, monkeys are multipurpose, hmm?) If we figured that it wasn't cool to do the stanford prison experiment with people, would we have found out the same things if we used monkeys instead? If human love is such a precious thing can we really compare it to monkey love?
It is very interesting how the harlow monkey experiment can relate to many situations regarding infantile neglect and the long lasting effects that it can have on a human as well as a monkey.
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