PROCEDURE

• AIM OF HARLOW'S STUDY?

  investigate attachment process in rhesus monkeys
• RESEARCH METHOD OF HARLOW'S STUDY?

  controlled observation
• DESIGN OF HARLOW'S STUDY?

  independent groups
• SAMPLE OF HARLOW'S STUDY?

  8 rhesus monkeys
• PROCEDURE OF HARLOW'S STUDY?

  1. Put monkeys in cages with two surrogate mothers
  2. Measured how long monkeys spent with each mother
  3. Recorded which mother monkeys ran to when frightened
• WHAT WERE THE TWO CONDITIONS OF HARLOW'S EXPERIMENT?

  CONDITION 1: wire mother with food and a cloth mother without

  CONDITION 2: cloth mother with food and wire mother without
• FINDINGS OF HARLOW'S STUDY?

  • monkeys spent up to 22 hours a day with cloth mother
  • always went to cloth mother when frightened
  • could not socialise successfully/ rear young when released
• CONCLUSIONS OF HARLOW'S STUDY?

  monkeys attach for comfort and security and not because of an association with food
• ANOTHER CONCLUSION OF HARLOW'S STUDY?

  early childhood attachment affects later relationships