I think its an urban legend like the russian sleep experiment but they still do some horrible animal testing today.
Experiment with monkeys and heated floor.
Harlow separated infant monkeys from their biological mothers to observe their attachment behaviors with surrogate mothers made out of metal and cloth.
Stephenson found in cultural acquisition of a specific learned response among rhesus monkeys as well as certain experiments with chimpanzees conducted by wolfgang kohler in the 1920s.
During the first 14 days of life the monkey s cage floor was covered with a heating pad wrapped in a folded gauze diaper and thereafter the cage floor was bare.
Over the years it was pieced together to form the urban legend as it now.
Who did the experiment testing a monkey when her cage floor was heated until she stood on her baby.
However the wire mesh mother did not have any soft surface while the terry cloth mother was soft to the touch and appeared to be cuddly in the first experiment both surrogates were placed with the infant monkeys so the infants would have a choice.
This story a modern day fable was inspired in part by the experiments of g r.
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Both surrogates were of the same size.
These 1950s experiments showed us the trauma of parent child separation.
We stopped it.
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Who did the experiment testing a monkey when her cage floor was heated until she stood on her baby.
The aim of the research was to produce an animal model of depression researcher stephen suomi described the device as little.
Story found here if link doesn t work it s story 60 i believe.
Now experts say they re too unethical to repeat even on monkeys.
Top gear monkeys with babies on heated floor surely that is a made up story.
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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.
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