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6. Who did the Bucharest Early Intervention Project?

  • Zeanah
  • Rutter
  • Bowlby
  • Rotter

7. How many of the orphans showed mental retardation when arriving in the UK?

  • All of them
  • None of them
  • One half
  • One third
  • One quarter
  • Three quarters

8. What important practical application did Langton say the results of the research had?

  • Improvements to care homes - introduction of 'key workers' to play a central role in a child's care as opposed to having many careers
  • Improvements to care homes - making sure each child has at least three careers, more if possible
  • Social workers - helping social workers to identify more easily children at risk and deal with it sooner

9. Which of the following is a major issue with the Romanian Orphan studies?

  • Whether or not it was ethical
  • Whether or not the findings are generalisable
  • Whether or not the results can be extrapolated

10. What development areas were the orphans tested for at ages 4, 6, 11, 15?

  • Physical, cognitive, biological
  • Physical, cognitive and emotional
  • Physical, cognitive, biological and emotional
  • Cognitive, emotional, biological

11. Disorganised attachment is when a child shows a weird mixture of both insecure - avoidant and insecure - resistant behaviours

  • True
  • False

12. Disinhibited attachment is when a child is equally affectionate/ friendly towards people they know and strangers and is a possible outcome of institutionalisation

  • True
  • False

13. What did the orphan study test for?

  • The extent to which good after care can make up for early experiences in institutions
  • Whether or not orphans can form attachments
  • The extent to which orphaned children are bullied and whether or not they can recover from this

14. What percentage of the children from Zeanah's study had a secure attachment?

  • 2%
  • 20%
  • 3%
  • 19%
  • 43%

15. 63% of the children from Zeanah's study had a disorganised attachment

  • True
  • False

16. Which of the following is false?

  • Those adopted after 2 years had a mean IQ of 77
  • Those adopted before 6 months had a mean IQ of 102
  • All of these statistics are false
  • Those adopted between 6 months and 2 years had a mean IQ of 86