The pit of despair was a name used by american comparative psychologist harry harlow for a device he designed technically called a vertical chamber apparatus that he used in experiments on rhesus macaque monkeys at the university of wisconsin madison in the 1970s.
Experiment mother and baby monkey heated floor.
Harlow hypothesized that members of the first group benefitted from a psychological resource emotional attachment unavailable to members of the second.
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Significance of the harlow s monkey experiment.
Heartbreaking footage shows terrified baby monkey snatched from mother for uk testing lab posted by oli gross 12th september 2019 12th september 2019 posted in news vegan activism the uk government has been urged to take action to ban cruel animal testing after a harrowing video emerged of a baby monkey being separated from its mother at a lab.
Monkeys who had soft tactile contact with their terry cloth mothers behaved quite differently than monkeys whose mothers were made out of cold hard wire.
The aim of the research was to produce an animal model of depression researcher stephen suomi described the device as little.