Bowlby

Question 1

How does maternal deprivation affect a child intellectually and emotionally

Answer 1

INTELLECTUAL- lower IQ
EMOTIONAL- Inability to experience guilt or strong emotion for others, prevents person developing normal relationships, lack of internal working model, cannot appreciate feelings of victims and lack remorse for actions

Question 2

weakness 1

Answer 2

Bowlby used children who are orphans during the Second World War and those going up in poor quality orphanage- This is a limitation because war children were traumatised and had poor after-care and many children were deprived of many aspects of care, not just maternal

Question 3

Weakness 2

Answer 3

Not all the research supports the findings as one researcher partially replicated the study and found that prolonged separation does not predict criminality or difficulty forming close relationships but suggests another factor that could be involved

Question 4

44 thieves study

Answer 4

-44 criminal teenagers accused of stealing and and then interviewed for signs of affection less psychopathic
- The families were also interview to establish whether they had prolonged early separation from their mothers
-Control group of non-criminal but emotionally disturbed young people will also set up to see who were maternally deprived from people who aren’t thieves
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Question 5

findings

Answer 5

• 14/44 were affectionless psychopaths, 12 out of those had experienced prolonged separation from mothers in first 2 years of life
• 5 of remaining 30 had experienced separations
• Control group had 2/44 maternally deprived

Question 6

weakness with maternal deprivation theory

Answer 6

psychologists state he was studying privation and not deprivation, privation is when there is no bond to start off with- Bowlby exaggerated effects

Question 7

strength of maternal deprivation theory

Answer 7

There has been wider implications such as changes in a child hospitalisation as now mothers can stay with a child because of his research showing how important it is to have a mother figure with them for care

Question 8

maternal deprivation meaning

Answer 8

continuous emotional care from Mother/Mother substitute for normal intellectual/emotional development

Question 9

when is the critical period

Answer 9

2 1/2 years

Question 10

limitation

Answer 10

it is open to researcher bias, Bowlby assessed who is an affectionless psychopath

Question 11

What did they have a lack of

Answer 11

Guilt empathy affection