Attachents distrusted or prevented Flashcards
What is institutional care
24 hour residential care in children’s home or an orphanage with other children and paid members of staff
What is institutionalisation
The negative effects of children being raised in an institution
What is bowlbys maternal deprivation hypothesis
Distribution of attachment bond with the mother leads to serious, percent damage to emotional and intellectual development
What are the effects of maternal deprivation
Personality problems - affection less psychopathology
Intellectual problems
Poor physical development - stunted growth
Emotional - depression
What is privation
Failure to form any kind of attachment
What is protest
Child separated from their carer they cry, scream, struggle and become angry and bewildered
What is despair
Child stops struggling and doesn’t engage with others - comforts themselves by rocking
What is detachment
Child starts to respond to others but not emotionally - doesn’t respond to parent
Outline hetheringtons study
Study consequences of divorce on children over longitudinal and comparing to control group
Immediately they were found to be less mature, aggressive and attention seeking
2 and 4 years after divorce girls were no different to control group but boys were more aggressive and less socially skilled
Outline Robertson and robertsons study
Detailed filming of 5 children
Looked after 4 in their home who showed signs of distress but functioned well
One child - John, put into residential nursery care and cried, refused, struggled when mum came and had anger after wards
Evaluate Robertson and robertsons study
High ecological validity - made it like home small sample - not generalisable but the qualitative data would take too long on more participants
biased because they want to seem desirable - demand characteristics
