9 thoughts on “ The Wire Mother ”

1. Jun 23,  · Wire mother was a wire effigy of a “mom”, complete with a nipple and bottle. “She” was for food provision. Cloth mother was soft, designed for clinging, but provided no food.

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2. Jun 20,  · Every single time, the baby monkeys would cling to the soft cloth mothers, going to the wire mother only when absolutely necessary to be fed. (There's a famous photo of one monkey clinging to its cloth mother and leaning waaaay over to nurse from the wire mother. Harlow later placed a wall between the two to prevent that.)Author: Doktor Zoom.

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3. Sep 22,  · If the mother was nearby, regardless of whether it was the wire type or the cloth one, the baby monkey would cling to her. And in the presence of the mother, the baby monkeys were stronger, braver. They made bold moves, such as approaching the noisy teddy bear .

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4. Sep 13,  · Without the mother, the infants cowered and avoided the object. When the surrogate mother was present, however, the infant did not show great fearful responses and often contacted the device—exploring and attacking it. Another study looked at the differentiated effects of being raised with only either a wire mother or a cloth mother.

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5. Feb 14,  · The results for the wire mesh mother were the opposite. In this case, the baby monkeys reacted rather differently with the same stimulus – throwing themselves on the floor, rocking back and forth, and evidently did not go to the wire mesh mother for comfort. Significance of the Harlow’s Monkey Experiment.

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6. When only the wire mother had food, the babies came to the wire mother to feed and immediately returned to cling to the cloth surrogate. Harlow’s work showed that infants also turned to inanimate surrogate mothers for comfort when they were faced with new and scary situations.

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7. Jul 31,  · Harlow showed that rhesus monkeys preferred the soft, cloth stuffed-animal mother over wire surrogates, even when nursed by the wire doll. The famous images of the scary cloth mother and the even scarier wire mother has great cultural weight, but the real drama of the story Ottaviani tells is the contemporary scientists who won't admit the word love into their clinical /5(9).

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8. Jul 26,  · The best mothers in HBO's The Wire. Casino "You can either have the money and the hammer or you can walk outta here you can't have both" - Duration: Hollywood Clips Recommended for you.

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9. Wrangler orders a hit on his baby’s mother for cheating on him with an old aquatint. Maybe an Easter egg to bodie from the wire.. Thoughts?

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