Newborns almost always feel very secure with their mother or guardian. When you take care of a child you must always give him his basic needs, but you must also show him love and affection. Love and affection can have more effect on a child than simply meeting their basic needs. In my psychology class we talked about a psychologist named Harry F. Harlow. He performed an experiment at the University of Wisconsin on mother/child bonding with monkeys. I will look at part of that experiment and explain how this experiment has been very true in my life. Harry F. Harlow was an American psychologist who studied human behavior and development through studies of the social behavior of monkeys. Harlow earned her bachelor's and doctoral degrees in psychology from Stanford University. Then, later, he got a job and studied at the University of Wisconsin. Harlow's experiment involved separating young monkeys from their mothers immediately after birth. Then, the monkeys were raised in laboratories that had mothers made of wire mesh and another of wood and sponge. When the baby monkeys were placed in the cage, only one mother was equipped with a nipple which was the mother's wire mesh. It was positioned so the baby monkey could breastfeed. Even though the wired monkey had nourishment, the young monkey very often clung to the sponge mother. Harlow would put a monkey in a cage. Then, he started making loud noises against the cage or playing recordings that made the monkey feel unsafe. The monkey always seemed to go towards the mother sponge when he started to get scared. The baby monkey would seek comfort, but would ultimately get nourishment from its wired mother. The conclusion of this…half of the paper…experiment was done instead of imagining it. We know that these things are important because children need basic needs, but they also need to receive love and affection. Harry Harlow showed in his experiment how true basic needs and affection have on animals and humans. Every child in the world needs to experience these things in life, but I know that's not the case. Maybe if the world's children also received the attention they should, things would be very different. Children don't always just want basic needs, they want to know that their loved ones do too. This is one of the coolest experiments I learned about in my psychology class and it was awesome. Works Cited Schultheis, E. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/harlow.htmHarlow, H.F. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.lphslibrary.org/uploads/7/2/9/6/7296009/harlow_nature_of_love.pdf