monkey priorities

[wildlyoscillate]

In the 1950’s Harlow was given the challenge of raising infant monkey’s and ensuring that their survival rate would be greater than that raised by cage raised mothers. In delivering diets rich in vitamins, iron extracts, penicillin, chloromycetin, 5% glucose, etc, Harlow decided to study the development of affectional responses of neonatal and

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[wildlyoscillate]

Studying this in psychology. I found it very interesting. Makes me wish I'd actually gone to the lectures.

[wildlyoscillate]

WEIRD. Why were you talking about it?

Re: JENGA?!

[wildlyoscillate]

Why did you stop doing psych? It totally shits all over biology. I prefer actually having to think rather than force feeding myself fact upon fact upon fact.

Re: bourkey's like heroin to me

[wildlyoscillate]

Puh-lease. Learning a simple fact someone else has spent years discovering pales in comparison to grasping concepts like the subjectivity of thought. Biology asks you to use your brain like a book, psych asks you to use it like a tool.

[find_the_girl]

i remember learning about Harlow's monkeys in Psych. :D
i also remember thinking that my mum had become a wire monkeymother when she re-took up smoking and lost heapsa weight. i didn't want to hug her anymore because she wasn't comfy. too snappable. :\

good old Harlow and his tortured monkeys...

I WISH I SAW THAT FRENCH DOCO ON MONKEY+MAN=WEIRDDUDE, ON SUNDAY NIGHT!
...but i didn't.

THEEEEEEEEE END!
♥

[syds_emily]

gotta love psych and the idea that somebody out there HAS done it. I read something very amusing about raccoons and that they have an innate money-hoarding behaviour. The lectures were good. The exam was exhausting.