Bowlby Material Deprevation Flashcards
Material deprivation
The effects that a loss of attachment has on a child
Deprivation
Love and lost
Occurs when the attachment bond is formed but broken later on in life
Privation
Never to have loved or been loved at all
Occurs when child does not form any attachment at all
Separation versus deprivation
Separation - child not with caregiver only issue if they deprived which can cause harm to the child
Difficulty forming relationship
Due to the issue with the formation of the IWM
Behavioural
Such as delinquency and anti-social behaviour (criminality)
Emotional disorder
Depression or affection less psychopathy
Effect of maternal deprivation
Intellectual development- deprived of attachment deley intellectual development low iq
Emotional development - affectionless psychopathy the inability to experience guilt or strong emotions to others lack remorse
44 thieves study
Method - quasi experimental (correlational)
Interview fam on early life experiences
Result - 86% of affectionless psychopaths experienced attachment separation
17% of other thieves
Weakness 44 thieves
Correlational only show relationship early childhood experience
Can’t conclude separation causes affection-less psychopathy
Weakness 44 thieves
Retrospective data collection recall info from long ago
Can’t remember detail accurately change details
Weakness MDH
Counter evidence not all research support findings
44 thieves 500 young people did not predict criminality or hard forming relationships suggest other factors effect outcome
Weakness MDH
Damage not inevitable can have good outcome right care and social interaction twin Czechoslovakia isolated till age 7 but fully recovered show more sensitive period than critical
