Infant monkeys raised with a nourishing wire mother and a nonnourishing cloth mother
A) preferred the nourishing wire mother.
B) preferred the nonnourishing cloth mother.
C) showed no preference for one mother over the other.
D) shifted their initial preference for the wire mother to the cloth mother as they matured.

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Infant monkeys showed a strong preference for the nonnourishing cloth mother over the nourishing wire mother, indicating the importance of comfort and tactile stimulation in the formation of attachment, as demonstrated in the experiments by Harry Harlow.

Infant Monkeys Raised with a Nourishing Wire Mother and a Nonnourishing