Monday, January 30, 2012
Quarter 3, Week 2: Harry Harlow Experiments
This week in class you will be learning about Dr. Harry Harlow's experiments involving rhesus monkeys in the 1950s and 1960s. Do you think anthropologists should repeat Harlow's experiments today and investigate them further? What complications might the anthropology community face if they were repeated?
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No, I do not believe that these experiments should be repeated because it is animal cruelty. After they were performed everyone agreed that it could never be tested on humans and if scientists agree that the rhesus monkeys are so similar to humans emotionally why should they have to suffer through something like that. It is unfair and unethical to torture an animal this way.
No, i dont think that the harlo experiments should be repeated for a veryity of reasons. For the first part the expirements are extreamly harmfull to the rhesus monkeys. As shown in the videos we watched in class the monkeys are raised in solitude and phsycologicly tromotized. Not only this but the repeating of this experiment would do little to nothing for our knowledge. what was done in the experiment was very clearand it would be a big waste of time to repeate harlos experiments because we would bere the same results and observations as the original experiments.
No, Dr. Harlow's experiments should never be repeated. They were inhuman and immoral. No one would do such experiments to human beings, why do this to our cousins?
I feel like the experiments that Harlow conducted should never be repeated. The tests were inhumane and came up with answers that could have been looked at without tests. During the video, the monkeys were frightened by a machine. Of course, the monkey chose the mother that was comforting. That is something that would be easily found out just through common sense. If you were scared when you were little because there was a monster under your bed, where did you go? To you mother and father.
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