Question

How does attachment affect exploration? Be sure to include findings from both Harlow and Ainsworth in your response.

Answer 1

Attachment can affect many things. When you go back to the experiment, you see that they are testing 4 monkeys. They want to see if they would go to the cloth mother or the wire mother. But that is just the base of the experiment. Once the monkeys pick the mother, they have attached themselves to the mother, because animals will pick what is mother, because once you are born, the "hunger games" begin in the wild. They will stay by their mother's side until they are grown and ready to go on their own. When you think about this whole experiment, you know that this experiment was designed as a test of the relative importance of contact comfort. They could have picked any animal for this, and the outcome would have been very similar because as a baby you need to find things that you trust and that is your mother.

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Answer 2

“The monkey became attached to the cloth mother so it developed a sense of security. ... In both Ainsworth and Harlow's studies it goes to show that a child social development is dependent on the attachment of a caregiver or mother.”