Lisa Wiggins
Professor Sprotte
October 12, 2012
General psychology “Discovering Love” The article “Discovering Love”, by Harlow (1958) describes the component of love between an infant and a mother. Harlow demonstrates in his experiment how monkeys need the love and comfort from a mother figure just like humans do. The love and connection between a mother and her baby is the most important thing growing up. It will be the start to a new life, and will give the child a better structure of living.
In Harlow’s experiment, he used two groups of monkeys that were raised with either a cloth or write mother demonstrated the importance of contact comfort. No matter which mother had the milk, the monkeys spent their time on the cloth mother rather than the wire mother. Both set of monkeys were given the same nutritional needs. Both sets of moneys gained the same amount of weight although the monkey feeding from the wired mother had diarrhea due to lack of comfort from the wire mother. This put a lot of stress upon the young monkeys. Harlow conducted his opinion well and thoroughly. He proved his points by using valid arguments and statistics. All humans and animals need love and comfort to grow up to have a healthy life. The better environment and the more comfortable you are to your mother as a baby the better the connection and the better the life you will have. Statistics shown by Harlow, prove that having the love and comfort needed by the mother will uncover the better life