L6 - Maternal Deprivation Theory

Question 1

What is deprivation and what are the effects of it?

Answer 1

Prolonged absence of the primary attachment figure, leading to long-term intellectual, social, and emotional difficulties

Question 2

Maternal deprivation will have an impact if?

Answer 2

Separation occurs before 2 yrs old and no substitute primary caregiver is available to take over emotional care

Question 3

The continuity hypothesis stages what?

Answer 3

Problems will affect adulthood and lead to inability to be a good parent due to a lack of an internal working model

Question 4

How was Bowlby’s study done and what were the findings?

Answer 4

88 children studied
44 caught stealing, other 44 were control
14 were affectionless psychopaths, 12 of them experience frequent separations from their mothers compared to 3 of the 30 who weren’t affectionless psychopaths
Almost none of control group experienced this

Question 5

What are affectionless psychopaths?

Answer 5

Individuals who lacked affection, as well as shame and responsibility for their actions

Question 6

+ related to application

Answer 6

Knowing how separations affects children meant hospitals review practices and visiting hours so family can now visit

Question 7

• related to retrospective

Answer 7

Was asking adolescent participants to recall childhood separations and memories may not be accurate

Question 8

Negative evaluation

Answer 8

Didn’t state differences between privation (never having a primary attachment figure) and deprivation (having one and then having them taken away)
Don’t know which one causes negative effects found in research