Bowlby's maternal deprivation theory
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- Bowlby's maternal deprivation theory
- Seperation vs. Deprivation
- Seperation simply means the child is not in the presence of the caregiver
- Deprivation is a prolonged separation with no adequate substitute care
- The critical period
- The first 30 months of life
- If a child in separated from their mother and has no substitute care during the critical period, psychological damage is inevitable
- Effects on development
- Effects on intellectual development
- Retardation (low IQ)
- Goldfarb found that children who remained in institutions had a lower IQ than those fostered
- Retardation (low IQ)
- Effects on emotional development
- Psychopathy - lack of empathy and guilt
- Prevents development of normal relationships
- Links with criminality
- Effects on intellectual development
- 44 thieves study
- 44 teens accused of stealing were interviewed for signs of psychopathy
- Their families were also interviewed to establish whether teens were deiprived from mothers
- Control group= non criminals who were emotionally disturbed
- Control group= non criminals who were emotionally disturbed
- Findings were that 14 of the 44 were psychopaths in which most of them were deprived from mothers
- 5 of the teens that weren't described as psychopaths had experienced deprivation
- Of the control group, 2 out of 44 had experienced long separations
- Bowlby concluded that early deprivation causes psychopathy
- Their families were also interviewed to establish whether teens were deiprived from mothers
- 44 teens accused of stealing were interviewed for signs of psychopathy
- Evaluation
- There is research against it
- Lewis replicated 44 thieves study and found that 500 people who were deprived from mothers did not become criminals
- May be other factors affecting the outcome of people
- Research to show that deprivation beyond the critical period does not mean inevitable suffering
- Case study of twin boys who were trapped in a cupboard from 18 months to 7 years old
- They were looked after by two loving sisters and they made a full recovery
- Not the critical period but the sensitive period
- They were looked after by two loving sisters and they made a full recovery
- Case study of twin boys who were trapped in a cupboard from 18 months to 7 years old
- Lewis replicated 44 thieves study and found that 500 people who were deprived from mothers did not become criminals
- Support from animal studies
- There is research against it
- Seperation vs. Deprivation
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