The Bucharest Early Intervention Project

Question 1

What is the procedure ?

Answer 1

Zeanah et al assessed attachment in 95 children aged 12 - 31 months who spent most of their time in institutional care and were compared to a control group of 50 children who never lived in institutional homes
Measured using strange situation

Question 2

What are the finding ?

Answer 2

19 % securely attached
65% disorganised attachment
44% disinhibited attachment
And 74% of control group were securely attached

Question 3

What is disorganised attachment style

Answer 3

Fearful avoidant attachment style
Intense fear often from childhood trauma neglect or abuse

Question 4

What is disinhibited attachment style?

Answer 4

Child has no fear of strangers and will willingly go with the stranger and approach them

Question 5

Evaluation : real life application

Answer 5

Helped improve care homes
Children started having key workers-to develop normal attachment and prevent disinhibited attachments

Question 6

Evaluation: Lacks generalisability

Answer 6

Children in Romania had the absolute worst conditions and other orphanages around the world may not have such bad conditions therefore can’t use the data to generalise and there are other circumstances

Question 7

Evaluation : High internal validity

Answer 7

Has fewer extraneous variables than other studies and so is more valid as doesn’t have factors such as loss and trauma involved