Wk 11 Live lecture Flashcards
Explain the sample of the English-Romanian Adoption study
Romanian orphans were adopted by British parents and compared with British orphans who were adopted by British parents
What did Rutter (2004) find about 6 year old orphans?
If children were adopted before 6 years old, they generally had good outcomes.
If children were adopted after 6, Romanian children had cognitive delays and weighed less
What did O Connor (2000) find about children who were adopted after 2 years of deprivation?
At age 6 children had lower cognitive scores but some children improved.
What did Beckett (2006) find from when children were 11 years old?
Children with more than 2 years deprivation improved but still had impairments.
Children adopted after 6 months had lower IQ, emotional and behavioural difficulties, cognitive impairments, difficulties in social interaction, impairment of theory of mind
What did Rutter find about children who were 15 years old?
Children showed some emotional, behavioural, and peer relationship problems
Some children had difficulties in finding employment
What are positives of orphans who were adopted?
Most showed great resilience and adaptation
Most adoptees were very positive about the experiences within the families
What is the overall conclusion from ERA study about children adotped before 6 months?
If children are adopted before the age of 6 months then they can demonstrate resilience and catch-up developmentally.
What is the overall conclusion from ERA study about children adotped after 6 months?
Children show improvements but they never catch up with a control-group developmentally
What is the overall conclusion from ERA study about children who were adopted after 2 years or later?
Have severe cognitive and social limitations
What did Skuse do?
Presented a set of case studies of extreme deprivation.
Observed the child at the point of discovery, during recovery, and the final outcome
Outline the Genie case study
Spent her entire childhood locked in a bedroom, isolate, and abused for over a decade (13 years).
She was tied to a chair and her father would beat her.
What were Genie’s abilities like when she was discovered?
She couldn’t talk or use language.
She couldn’t stand, walk, eat or dress herself.
What were Genie’s abilities like during recovery?
She quickly learned how to walk, use the toilet, and dress herself etc.
She could communicate non-verbally but she could not develop language.
Outline the Oxana Malaya case study
Neglected by her alcoholic parents
Locked out of the house at 3 years old to live with the dogs
She lived as part of the dog’s pack for 5 years
What was Oxana Malaya’s behaviour when she was discovered?
Run on all fours and bark like a dog would.
No social/language skills
