Privation

Question 1

What is privation/emotional privation?

Answer 1

Lack of attachment or love in a child who has been unable to form an attachment

Question 2

What is physical privation?

Answer 2

Lack of basic physical needs such as food or shelter

Question 3

What is the main case study?

Answer 3

Genie

Question 4

What happened to Genie?

Answer 4

• kept in isolation for 13 yrs with no light, no socialization, nothing to see
• tied up to a potty chair
• beaten for making noises

Question 5

What tests were done to Genie?

Answer 5

• -sleep study-wired up for brain measurements

- observations and tried to reach her to speak

Question 6

What was significant that they found in Genie’ s sleep study?

Answer 6

Overactive spindles

Equivalent to brain activity when awake

Question 7

How many words did genie learn?

Answer 7

Over 100

Question 8

How many nights did they run genies sleep study?

Answer 8

4 nights

Question 9

How was genie affected After being a case study?

Answer 9

• started to walk more upright-once taught
• -explored surroundings intensely
• disconnected by certain bodily functions
• formed an attachment with researchers
• able to describe what happened to her even when she didn’t know the words

Question 10

Could genies effects be overcome?

Answer 10

• formed attachments with researchers
• she could read words
• found a critical period- able to learn words but couldn’t learn grammar

Question 11

Name 5 xase studies for privation?

Answer 11

• Genie
• freud and Dana
• Tizard
• Rutter
• koluchova

Question 12

What happened in the Koluchova case study?

Answer 12

-czech twins-father put twins up for adoption and got them back when he was married
Step mother neglected twins (beat and lock up)

• found and put into hospital and adopted by gentle caring family
• by 20 twins in secure relationships and had jobs-notmal iq and had children of their own

Question 13

Euay cobclusions/supporting/conflicting found in Koluchova case study?

Answer 13

• found at young age=easier to reverse effects
• twins so had an existing attachment
• when in high quality care it’s easier to reverse

Question 14

What happened in Freud & Dana case study?

Answer 14

• Bulldogs bank children
• survivors of concentration camp
• found at later age than kaluchova twins
• formed attachments with carers in rehab
• all went on to form normal attachments except 1

Question 15

What conclusions/strengths/weaknesses found in Freud and Dana study?

Answer 15

• found at later age than kaluchova czech twins

- had each other- privation reversible

Question 16

What happened in Tizard case study?

Answer 16

• adopted institutionalised children

- able to form attachments with adopted family but trouble forming attachments with anyone outside of family

Question 17

What conclusions/supporting/conflicting is there in Tizard study?

Answer 17

• -adopted more than 1 child- child not alone in being adopted
• good quality of care
• didn’t form attachment outside of family

Question 18

What happened in Rutter case study?

Answer 18

• romanian orphans
• went to romanian orphanage to study privation in orphans
• romanian culture disagrees with contraception so many orphans

Question 19

What did they find/conclude in Rutter case study?

Answer 19

• intellectual growth over time
• -if children found before age of 6, they were fine
• children over 6 had problems- poor attention span, rigid thinking, autistic tendencies, poor empathy skills
• all children had average IQ at later adolescents

-age is significant in reversing effects of privation