romanian orphans
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- Created on: 26-04-18 15:50
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- Romanian Ophans
- effects of institutionalisation
- Child attaches to everyone
- They show signs of mental retardation if not adopted before 6 months of age
- procedure
- 165 romanian orphans who lived in poor conditions before they were adopted in Britain were reseached
- physical, cognitive and emotional development was studied from 4 to 15 years.
- they also followed a control group of 52 adopted British children
- Findings
- those adopted before 6 months had a mean IQ of 102. those adopted between 6 months and 2 years had a mean IQ of 86. those after 2 years had IQ of 77
- those adopted after 6 months showed clinginess, attention-seeking etc.
- theres a sensitive period
- AO3
- important practical applications (improvements in institutions)
- cant generalise, conditions were so bad
- children weren't randomly assigned, so adopted could have been more sociable (cv)
- effects of institutionalisation
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