Nature Of Love In Psychology Assessment Answer

Harry Harlow nature of love deals with the psychological aspects of love. It rejects the concept of love as described by poets and novelists and attributes love more to security and other necessary things such as food, shelter, sexual requirements etc. The concept describes security and comfort as the major component of love over food and other components. The concept says that although food plays a major role in development of animals including humans (social animals), it is not above the security and concern for care in animals which is heavily dependent on the tender care provided to a baby animals during its infancy which according to psychologists plays a very important role in the overall mental and physical development of animals at a later stage. The concept of love described in the Harry Harlow nature of love is based on the experiments done on baby monkeys where baby monkeys were separated from their mother and raised in artificial facilities where they were provided with milks to suckle through bottles and were provided shelters which were synonymous to the requirements of baby monkeys to grow. Two monkeys were provided with same kind of food supplements but different kind of shelters. The 1st one was given a very cushion type of environment with soft delicate clothes with warm tender like shelter and the other was provided with wire like shelters having less comforts. The monkey with good shelter was found to be overall healthy. In the next stage to experiment further, an artificial surrogate mother was put with two differentiating nature of shelter, one was heavily cushioned with all the comforts including food and the other was provided with less comfort but same amount of food materials. In both of them the monkeys could suck milk from a well put nipple like thing. On observation it was found when the monkeys crossed their first stage of infancy and were let roam free they would mostly go to the surrogate mother with more comfort whenever they would feel threatened by external environment for security and care. The concept stated further that the overall development of monkeys which were observed growing with their original mother were not as good as the monkeys with surrogate mothers (Vicedo, 2010).