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Drive Drive Drive Drive INTRODUCTION I n the middle of the last century, two young scientists conducted experiments that should have changed the world but did not. Harry F. Harlow was a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin who, in the 1940s, established one of the world's first laboratories for studying primate behavior. One day in 1949, Harlow and two colleagues gathered eight rhesus monkeys for a two-week experiment on learning. The researchers devised a simple mechanical puzzle like the one pictured on the next page. Solving it required three steps: pull out the vertical pin, undo the hook, and lift the hinged cover. Pretty easy for you and me, far more challenging for a thirteen- pound lab monkey. Harlow's puzzle in the starting (left) and solved (right) positions. The experimenters placed the puzzles in the monkeys' cages to observe how they reacted and to prepare them for tests of their problem-solving prowess at the end of the two weeks. But almost immediately, something strange happened. Unbidden by |
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