Social development

Social development

1. Harlow

   • Monkeys in privation. Cloth mother or wire mother
     • Prefer warmth of hug to food
       • led to delinquent behaviour
         • became poor and neglecting mothers
     • Strengths
       • Scientific
       • only way to determine cause effect relationship
         • Privation causes delinquency
       • Can generalize to humans
         • Darwin
     • Weakness
       • unethical
       • some say effects of deprivation can be reversed
       • uses monkeys to explain human

2. Rutter

   • Romanian orphans
     • 111 orphans, 52 british adopted.
       • if adopted under 6 months, showed improvement in intellectual deficits
       • maternal deprivation is not enough to explain delinquency
   • Large scale; well controlled
   • overoptimistic