Maternal Deprivation
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- Created on: 19-04-16 10:53
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- Maternal Deprivation
- Basics
- Deprivation: Loss of emotional care through separation of attachment figure
- Prolonged separation from attachment figure causes serious damage to emotional/intellectual development
- Monotropy- to mum in particular
- Critical period- time frame in which we have to form attachment or it may not happen
- IWM- attachment and how good it is stays with you for life
- Prolonged deprivation leads to lower IQ/affectionless psychopathy
- 44 Thieves study
- 44 criminal thieves interviewed for signs of AP- lack of guilt/empathy/affection.
- Families interviewed to establish whether thieves had prolonged separation
- 14/44 thieves affectionless psychopaths, 12 experienced MD.
- Evaluation
- Support from animal studies: Monkey's preferred comfort mother
- Small sample size- not representative, lacks PV, harder to generalise
- Deterministic- ignores later life events, proposes inevitable psychological damage when maternally deprived
- Can form attachments after critical period- takes longer
- What about paternal deprivation?
- Social desirability- families may have lied to look better, retrospective data
- Not sure of cause and effect
- Deprivation/Privation?
- Many argue that Bowlby's effects were not to do with deprivation, but privation
- Deprivation: loss of primary attachment figure after the attachment has developed
- Privation: failure to form any attachment in the first place
- Basics
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