Attachment - institutionalisation

Question 1

Why do people study orphans?

Answer 1

To study the effects of deprivation on emotional and intellectual development

Question 2

What was Rutter’s research?

Answer 2

Michael Rutter (2011) followed a group of 165 romanian orphans for many years as part of the ERA study

Question 3

What was the aim of the ERA study?

Answer 3

To investigate the extent to which good care could make up for poor early experiences in institutionalisation

Question 4

What did half the adoptees show signs of when entering the uk?

Answer 4

Delayed intellectual development and most were severely malnourished

Question 5

What did adoptees at age 11 show?

Answer 5

Differential rates of recovery that were related to their age of adoption

Question 6

What was the mean IQ for children adopted before the age of 6 months?

Answer 6

102%

Question 7

What was the mean IQ for children adopted between the age of 6 months and 2 years?

Answer 7

86%

Question 8

What was the mean IQ for children adopted after the age of 2 years?

Answer 8

77%

Question 9

What did Beckett et al (2010) find?

Answer 9

These IQ differences remained at age 16

Question 10

What did Kennedy et al (2016) find?

Answer 10

ADHD was more common in 15 to 22 year old samples

Question 11

What did children adopted after the age of 6 months show?

Answer 11

Disinhibited attachment

Question 12

What are the symptoms of disinhibited attachment?

Answer 12

Attention-seeking, clinginess and social behaviour directed indiscriminately towards all adults, both unfamiliar and familiar

Question 13

What did children adopted before the age of 6 months not show?

Answer 13

Disinhibited attachment