In his experiments with monkeys raised in isolation, Harry Harlow found that these monkeys:
A) always preferred the imitation mother that gave them food.
B) preferred a soft cloth imitation mother with no food over a hard wire mother with food.
C) learned how to mate through instinct.
D) eventually learned to be good mothers themselves.
E) developed more quickly if the dolls were given tape-recorded monkey emotions.

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In his experiments, Harry Harlow found that the monkeys preferred a soft cloth imitation mother with no food over a hard wire mother with food. This demonstrated that the monkeys' attachment was not solely based on the provision of food, but also on the comfort and warmth provided by the cloth mother. Harry Harlow's experiments with monkeys raised in isolation found that they preferred a soft cloth imitation mother with no food over a hard wire mother with food. This demonstrated that the need for comfort and contact comfort was more important to the monkeys than their need for food.

In His Experiments with Monkeys Raised in Isolation, Harry Harlow