Friday, February 3, 2012

Harlow's Experiments

I think that in many ways Harry Harlows experiments were quite helpful to getting closer to the connection that there is between humans and primates. Even though I do not agree with the way that he choose to go about performing these experiments I think it was only  his intention to have a better understanding of the relationship between our two species, and through his experiments that is exactly what he did. Without that the current research going towards this question might not be going on today. He was not going out of his way to harm the monkeys in this experiment but only to see how they would react. Still I think that all that can be found out from these experiments is known and therefore uneccessary to be done again.

1 comment:

mia cupidro said...

ill disagree that the experiments have to be done again because we just learned how similar monkeys were to humans. So to treat them unethically and raise them in an out of natural enviroment and in isolation would therefore be wrong.