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ROMANIAN ORPHAN STUDIES
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- 1Outline Rutter et al. (2011) English and Romanian orphan study165 Romanian orphans - poor conditions before being adopted in the UK
Can good care make up for poor early experiences?
Physical, cognitive and emotional development assessed at 4, 6, 11 and 15
Also followed a control british group
Frequent disinhibited attachment in those adopted after six months was also found
1/2 showed signs of mental retardation when they came to the UK and by 11, recovery rates were found to be linked to the age of adoption - 2How was the age at adoption and IQ linked?Adopted before six months: 102
6-24 months: 86
24 months + : 77 - 3Briefly outline the procedure and findings of the Bucharest Early Intervention projectProcedure: longitudinal study of the social development of orphans fostered in Romania
Findings: much more insecure and disinhibited attachment in children who remained in institutions - 4Outline why the orphan studies have practical applicationImprovements in the way children are cared for in institutions
Homes now avoid large amounts of carers for each child
Child can develop normal attachments - 5Why do these studies have fewer confounding variables than other research?Original orphan studies involved children who had experience lots of trauma
This made it hard to observe the effects of institutionalisation (confounding variable)
Most Romanian orphans were abandoned at birth - less confounding variables - increased internal validity - 6Why are there generalisability issues?The conditions of the orphanages were so bad that the results may not apply to general situations of deprivation
Romanian orphanages had particularly low standards of care
The unusual situational variables mean the studies lack generalisability - 7Why is the fact that the children were not randomly assigned a limitation of the Rutter's research?Rutter did not interfere with the adoption process - those children adopted earlier may have just been more sociable or intelligent
In the BEIS the researchers randomly assigned children to groups
This is better because it gets rid of the problem of parents selecting children
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