Lecture 7 - Studies of extreme privation

Question 1

What is deprivation?

Answer 1

When a child has formed an important attachment but is then separated from the major attachment figure

Question 2

What are the effects of deprivation according to MDH?

Answer 2

• struggle with future relationships
• low iq
• affcetionless psychopathy
• likely to have mental illness
• prone ot delinquency

Question 3

What can separate young children from their attachment figures ?

Answer 3

work, illness, divorce, death

Question 4

what was Bowlbys hypothesis called?

Answer 4

Maternal deprivation hypothesis

Question 5

what are the long term effects of seperation?

Answer 5

Separation anxiety
Psychological Problems
Deprivation Dwarfism

Question 6

what is Deprivation Dwarfism?

Answer 6

not getting the right nutrients from food and physically not developing appropriately

Question 7

what factors affect deprivation?

Answer 7

Age- 7-8 months most distressed.
Gender- boys more distressed
Quality - child to staff ratio (large=anxiety)
previous experience

Question 8

what did Robertson & Robertson say?

Answer 8

Familiarised child with new surroundings before separation
Provided similar daily routine
Discussed child’s mother with them

Question 9

what is privation ?

Answer 9

never foreign a primary attachment figure

Question 10

what did Curtiss (1989) study?

Answer 10

Genie; Extreme privation & abuse-locked in cellar, strapped to bed at night and to a potty during the day. No social contact with anyone. Found at age 13!
Intense rehabilitative effort-Curtiss tried to teach Genie to speak and to interact socially.
Limited success – some attachments, some language

Question 11

what were the issues with Curtis’s case?

Answer 11

Possibly not developmentally normal
Questions about rehabilitation techniques
put into care and abused again

Question 12

what did Koluchova study?

Answer 12

Koluchova (1972,1991) studied twin boys born in the former Czechoslovakia.

Question 13

what happened to the chec twins?

Answer 13

The boys step mother treated them very cruelly. They spent the next 5 1/2 years locked in the cellar of their house.
small, rickets, communicated through gestures.

Question 14

how were the twins treated after being found?

Answer 14

The boys were put in a school for children with learning difficulties and were adopted.

Question 15

by what age did the boys not show nay signs of privation?

Answer 15

14

Question 16

the chec twins had lives which were good they…

Answer 16

They had a good relationship with their adoptive parents.
They had a close relationship with their adoptive siblings.
They showed no signs of psychological abnormality.
Went on to university.
Both twins later married and had families and enjoyed close warm relationships

Question 17

what san issue with check twin study ?

Answer 17

One idea that psychologists have had regarding this study is that because the children were together they formed a bond so they understood how to form relationships more successfully than children suffering privation alone (such as Genie).

Question 18

studies on privation have problems like..

Answer 18

Difficulty generalising from single cases or small samples

Difficulty separating effects of privation, abuse, malnutrition, other trauma or congenital abnormality