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Bowlby's theory of maternal deprivation

Elise Lambert Psychology AS - Level English 4.0Average rating 4.0 out of 5 (1 rating) 8 cards

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1What did bowlby propose?That a “warm, intimate & continuous relationship with a mother (figure)” is necessary for healthy psychological/ emotional development
2What are the consequences of Maternal deprivation?-inability to form attachments in the future
-emotional development: Affectionless psychopathy
-Intellectual development: lower IQ
3What was the study that Bowlby did into Maternal deprivation called?44 juvenile thieves
4What was the method of Bowlby's 44 thieves?44 Thieves were compared with 44 Non-thieves from a delinquency centre. Bowlby collected data via interviews and questionnaires from the 88 juveniles
5What did Bowlby find?17/ 44 thieves had experienced early prolonged separation
15/17 of these thieves were classed as affectionless psychopaths
2/44 non-thieves had experienced such separation.
6What is a limitation of Bowlby's 44 thieves study?Bowbly carried out the study himself and therefore the study is at risk of investigator effects
7What is another limitation of Bowlby's study?Bowlby found a relationship between early separation and delinquency/ affectionless psychopathy but we cannot definitively conclude that the separation was the cause
8What is another limitation of Bowlby's 44 thieves study?Retrospective recall might be inaccurate - As Bowlby was asking the adolescent participants to recall separations that they had experienced years earlier, their responses would have been subject to inaccuracies/ distortions.