Question

Harry Harlow and his colleagues completed a number of studies in which baby macaque monkeys were raised with two artificial surrogate mothers. One of the mothers was made of wire, and the other was made of a soft cloth. Either of the mothers could provide food. Harlow was interested in which of the mothers the infant monkeys would seek out when they were startled or frightened. In these studies the dependent variable was the:

Answer 1

Answer:

The infant monkeys behavior is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Harry Harlow was an American psychologist known by his experiments with monkeys, as in the question.

A dependent variable refers to what is measured or studied during an experiment, and it responds to the independent variable, which is the factor controlled by the person in charge of the experiment. In this case, the independent variable refers to the mothers and the amount of stress of the monkeys, while the dependent variable refers to how the monkeys reacted to these conditions.