Maternal deprivation: Bowlby

Question 1

outline

Answer 1

this states that prolonged period of time away from the primary caregiver in early childhood can have a negative effect on the child’s later development.
Therefore, a continuous relationship is essential for normal intellectual and emotional development.

Question 2

44 thieves study

Answer 2

12 out of the 14 were affection less psychopaths and had experienced prolonged separation from their mothers.

Question 3

affectless psychopathy

Answer 3

lack of empathy, remorse, guilt an inability to form normal relationships and an increased chance of criminality.

Question 4

Goldfarb (1947)

Answer 4

found that children raised in an orphanage had lower IQ scores that those who were fostered

Question 5

critical period

Answer 5

the first two and a half years (prolonged separation in this time causes psychological damage)

Question 6

Evaluation strength: postive application

Answer 6

led to a change in hospital policies that children can be visited by their parents in long hospital stays. (1950s)

Question 7

Evaluation strength: Levy et al (2003)

Answer 7

found that spending a day away from their mothers had a permanently negative effect on the social development of baby rats.

Question 8

Evaluation weakness: Lewis (2003)

Answer 8

found no relationship between early separation and later criminal behaviour relationship problems from 500 young people.

Question 9

Evaluation weakness: privation

Answer 9

this is when you never form an attachment in the first place. Rutter argued that this leads to far more severe negative effects on later development.