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MATERNAL DEPRIVATION
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- 1Outline Bowlby's theory of maternal deprivationContinued emotional care from mother is essential
Separation from mother may lead to maternal deprivation
Separation is different from deprivation - deprivation is losing emotional care as a result of separation
Critical period of 30 months
Intellectual development - deprivation lowers IQ (Goldfarb 1947)
Emotional development - deprivation is linked to affectionless psychopathy (inability to experience guilt or strong emotion for others, lacks remorse, often associated with criminality) - 2Outine Bowlby's 44 thieves study44 delinquent teenagers accused of stealing
Families were interviewed to establish any prolonged separations from mothers
All 'thieves' were interviewed for signs of affectionless psychopathy (lack of guilt, affection or empathy)
14/44 were affectionless psychopaths of which 12 had experienced prolonged separation from their mothers within the critical period
Only five of the remaining 30 had experienced separation - 3Outline the case of the Czech twins and how this challenged Bowlby's theoryTwins isolated from age of 18 months - seven years later looked after by two loving adults
Appeared to recover fully
Shows that severe deprivation can still have positive outcomes, as long as the child has some interactions and good aftercare
Critical period may be more of a sensitive period - 4Outline how animal studies support this theoryLevy et al.
Shows that separating baby rats from their mothers can have permanent negative effects on their social development though not other aspects of development
However there are some issues to the generalisability of some animal research - 5What is the difference between deprivation and privation - how does this link to Bowlby's theory?Deprivation - the loss of primary attachment figure after the attachment has formed
Privation - failure to form any attachment
Rutter argues that the severe long term damage outlined by Bowlby is more likely a result of privation
Many of the 44 thieves had moved from home to home whilst growing up and so may not have formed any attachment in the first place - 6Why may the evidence be poor?Bowlby included WWII orphans that grew up in poor quality orphanages and the 44 thieves
War-orphans were traumatised and often had poor after-care. Similarly, children growing up from birth in poor quality institutions were deprived of many aspects of care
These factors might have been the causes of later development difficulties rather than separation
The 44 thieves study was biased - Bowlby himself carried out the assessments for affectionless psychopathy knowing what he hoped to find
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