Difference Between Cloth Mother And Wire Mothers

There were two “mothers”, a cloth mother and a wire mother with food. The monkey would go to the wire mother for food but spend most of its time on the cloth mother. They came to the conclusion that contact comfort is important and overshadowed all other variables, including nursing. They then presented a scary apparatus and the monkey runs to his mother (the cloth one), to touch her and have contact with the mother. His personality completely changed when he had contact with his mother.

In the other experiment, they put a monkey into a room full of different items and it is searching for comfort. They had a piece of cloth mixed with those items in the room then they proceeded to take the monkey out and put the wire mother in. The monkey