One facet of a more famous experiment saw greater clinginess result from the presentation of moving teddy bears as fear stimuli.
This psychologist found that subjects adopted a win-stay, lose-shift strategy when faced with repeated choices between a reward-producing red block and a thimble. He dubbed that "learning to learn" phenomenon the "learning set". He deprived subjects of food for 1, 23, and 47 hours in an experiment finding that incentive size trumps food quality and food deprivation when making food preferences. One facet of a more famous experiment saw greater clinginess result from the presentation of moving teddy bears as fear stimuli. For that experiment, which was reported in his article The Nature of Love, he designed figures made of either heavy (*) wire mesh or wood covered with cloth, each with electric bulbs inside of them. For 10 points, name this American psychologist who devised the rape rack and pit of despair, and showed that mother/child bonds go beyond simple warmth in his experiments with Rhesus monkeys and surrogate mothers.
This psychologist found that subjects adopted a win-stay, lose-shift strategy when faced with repeated choices between a reward-producing red block and a thimble.
Harry Harlow