Bowlby 44 Thieves Evaluation
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- Created on: 02-10-15 10:58
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- Bowlby (1946) 44 Juvenile Thieves Evaluation
- + Validity: comparisons can be drawn from control group making results more valid.
- - DC: pps. knew they where in a study, interviews may have had experimenter effects.
- Parents may have lied to sound less neglectful
- + Reliability: used triangulation, questionnaire and personality tests.
- + Validity: real life case studies, in-depth, qualitative data.
- + Validity: Matched pairs raised validity also
- - Rutter: suggested the reason for maternal deprivation may have been caused by emotional problems rather separation itself.
- + Bias: Independent social worker used to reduce bias.
- - Bias: Bowlby did interviews and other research = may be biased
- - Reliability: Data was retrospective making it unreliable as it depended on past memories.
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