Although Harlow studied monkeys growing up in a lonely environment, he extended his experimental significance to the relationship between human mothers and babies. Therefore, Harlow's experiment also has great enlightenment for us to understand human maternal love. Facts have proved that the close relationship between mother and child and emotional and social support are important factors to promote a person's normal and healthy growth.
The rhesus monkey experiment proves that only close contact between mother and child is the key to the normal growth of children.
abstract
In the late 1950s, Harry Harlow, an animal psychologist at the University of Wisconsin, conducted a series of experiments to isolate newborn monkeys from their mothers and companions. After some young monkeys were fed separately from the female monkeys, although there were no physiological diseases, a series of abnormal behaviors appeared.
At the same time, it was observed that the little monkey had a great attachment to the velvet covered at the bottom of the cage. They lie on it and hold the flannel tightly with their little paws. If they take it away, they will lose their temper, just as human babies like broken blankets and stuffed bears. Harlow's research gives us meaningful enlightenment.