Deprivation Flashcards
what is deprivation?
when a child becomes separated from the primary caregiver for long periods of time
what is separation?
being taken away from the primary caregiver
what does Bowlby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis suggest?
that is an infant was unable to develop a warm, intimate and continuous relationship with his mother or permanent substitute then the child would have difficulty forming other relationships.
what was Bowlby’s own study of deprivation called?
44 juvenile thieves
what did Bowlby’s 44 juvenile thieves have an aim of?
to see if frequent early separations were associated with a risk of behavioural disorders.
what did Bowlby do?
88 children ranging from 5-16 yrs old. 44 had been sent to the clinic for stealing and the other 44 hadn’t committed any crimes but were emotionally maladjusted. Bowlby interviewed the children and their families.
what did Bowlby find?
a large number of the thieves had experienced early and prolonged separations from their mothers. and hardly any of the other group had done.
do the findings of Bowlby’s study support the maternal deprivation hypothesis?
yes
EVALUATION- Bowlby
the evidence is correlational-explain
which means we can only say that deprivation and affectionless psychopathy are linked, not that one caused the other.
EVALUATION-Bowlby
the data may be retrospective
because Bowlby interviewed the families and the children, the data given may be wrong or confused due to the memories being from a while ago.
what did Spitz and Wolf do?
observed 100 “normal” children who were placed in an institution who became severely depressed within a few months. They said the lack of stimulation in the institution was also responsible for their decline.
describe the Robertson and Robertson study
filmed John in a residential nursery, the staff had little time to attend to his personal needs and John began to cling to a teddy bear as appose to an actual person. John progressively became worse and when his mother came to collect him he tried to get away from her. For months after he continued to have bursts of anger.
describe what happened when the children in a like Robertson and Robertson study stayed with a foster mother instead of a residential nursery
the children visited their mother often and they were able to take stuff from their home to her house and when the mother came home, they children welcomed her.
what does the 2 Robertson and Robertson studies suggest about deprivation and separation?
separation from a caregiver does not lead to deprivation as long as separation is minimized and substitute emotional care is provided.
The conclusions that deprivation can be avoided as long as separation is minimized and substitute emotional care is given is supported by Skeels and Dye, explain their study
they compared the IQ’s of orphans raised in a home for mentally retarded women to a control group. After 1 and a half years, the IQ’s in the control group fell but the other group rose. 20 years later the results were the same
