In a contemporary replication of Harlow's surrogate-mother paradigm, infant macaques are housed with two artificial mothers: a wire frame dispensing milk and a cloth-covered frame providing no food. Researchers record clinging time, and they introduce a startling mechanical spider to assess where the infant flees.
Harlow's results most directly contradicted which earlier theoretical claim?
- Acheck_circle
The psychoanalytic 'cupboard theory' that infants attach to whoever feeds them
- B
Bowlby's evolutionary theory of attachment
- C
Ainsworth's classification of secure and insecure attachment
- D
Erikson's stage of trust versus mistrust
Explanation
Both Freudian and behaviorist accounts predicted attachment would form to the feeding source ("cupboard theory"). Harlow's data refuted this; Bowlby and Ainsworth's frameworks were consistent with his findings.