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Flashcards by Chanelle Titchener, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Chanelle Titchener
over 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Theory of Maternal Care | - Value of maternal care - Critical Period - Long-term consequences - Key study |
| Value of Maternal Care | - Findings from several studies came as quite a shock as no one had considered its long-term effects of separation on infants - Bowbly didn't believe that it was enough for an infant just being well-fed and kept safe and warm |
| Critical Period | - Bowbly believed that a young child who is denied care because of frequent separation from the mother could result in the infant becoming emotionally disturbed - Separation will only have this effect within 2.5 years, and if there is no presence of a caregiver, up to 5 years |
| Long-term Consequences | - A consequence of long-term separation will result in emotional maladjustment and even mental health problems such as depression |
| 44 Juvenile Thieves | - Bowlby (1944) analysed case histories of a number of patients in his child clinic - All children were emotionally maladjusted - Studied 88 children (44 thieves) - Thieves were affectionless psychopaths and lacked normal signs of affection and shame |
| 44 Juvenile Thieves | - 12/14 thieves experienced frequent separations compared with 5/30 - none of the control patients experienced early separations compared with 39% of all thieves |
| Evaluation | Real-world application > Had an enormous impact of post-war thinking on childcare in hospitals > Before Bowlby's research, children were separated from their parents when in hospital > Robertson (1952) filmed a 2yr old during her stay in hospital - emotional distress |
| Evaluation | Physical and emotional separation > Many people assume that physical separation is the cause when discussing deprivation, but may also be related to psychological separation > A mother may be physically present but may not provide suitable emotional care |
| Evaluation | Deprivation vs Privation > Rutter (1981) criticised Bowlby's theory in that it never made specific if the child's attachment had been broken or had not formed at all > Deprivation = lack of attachment bond > Privation = loss of attachment bond |
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