Infants generally feel very secure with their mother or caregiver. When you are carrying a child, you should always give them their basic needs, but you should also show them love and affection. Love and affection can have more of an effect on a child than just meeting their basic needs. In my psychology class, we talked about a psychologist named Harry F. Harlow. He conducted an experiment at the University of Wisconsin on mother-child bonding with monkeys. I will review some of this experience and explain how this experience has been very true in my life. Harry F. Harlow was an American psychologist who studied human behavior and development through studies of the social behavior of monkeys. Harlow received his bachelor's and doctoral degrees in psychology from Stanford University. Then, later, he got a job and studied at the University of Wisconsin. Harlow's experiment involved separating young monkeys from their mothers just after birth. Then the monkeys were raised in laboratories with mothers made of wire mesh and another made of wood and terry cloth. When the baby monkeys were placed in the cage, only one mother was equipped with a pacifier which was the wire mesh mother. It was placed so that the baby monkey could nurse. Even though the wire monkey had food, the young monkey most often clung to the terrycloth mother. Harlow would put a monkey in a cage. Then he started making loud noises against the cage or playing recordings that put the monkey in danger. The monkey still seemed to be moving towards the terrycloth mother as he started to get scared. The baby monkey sought comfort, but ended up getting food from the connected mother. The conclusion of this...... middle of paper...... the experiment was carried out instead of imagining it. We know these things are important because children need basic needs, but they also need to receive love and affection. Harry Harlow showed in his experiment how important true basic needs and affection have on animals and humans. Every child in the world needs to experience these things in life, but I know that's not the case. Perhaps there has never been a child in the world who has attracted attention as if he or she was meant too, things would be very different. Children don't always want to be satisfied with basic needs, they also want to know that their loved ones are loved. This is one of the most interesting experiments I learned about in my psychology class and it was awesome. Works Cited Schultheis, E. (nd). Retrieved from http://muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/harlow.htmHarlow, HF (nd). Retrieved from http://www.lphslibrary.org/uploads/7/2/9/6/7296009/harlow_nature_of_love.pdf