how many ERA's werer there in Rutter's (2010) study?
165
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how were the ERA's split up?
111 were adopted before they were 2 + 54 were adopted before they were 4
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They were tested by Rutter at regular intervals, which were...?
4 - 6 -11 - 15 yrs old
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what were the studies Findings at the age of adoption?
the ERA's lagged behind their English counterparts in social, physical and cognitive ability - some were labeled as mentally retarded
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what were the studies Findings at the age of 4?
some children had caught up with their English counterparts especially those adopted before the age of 6 months (no relationship issues)
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what were the studies Findings in subsequent studies?
The minority that had not caught up with their English counterparts were all adopted after 6 months and had trouble with relationships with their peers and attachment figures
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Do La Mare and Audet (2006) support Rutter's study?
They studied Phisical growth and health and while the ERA's were smaller and weaker at the age of 4 1/2 this difference had disapeard by the age of 10
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What did Zeanah (2005) find when comparing Romanian orphans to other Romanian children?
comparing the 136 orphans (12 - 31 months) to a control group in the Strange situaltion Zeanah found most of the Romainian orphans showed disneinbited attachment
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what are the characteristics of physical underdevelopment?
Gardener (1972) smallnes is caused y lack of maternal care rather than malnourishment causing deprivation dwarfism
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what are the characteristics of physical intellectual underfunctioning?
Skodak and Skeels 1949 - caused by emotional deprivation
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What is disinhibited attachment?
a type of insecure attachment were infants treat all adults with inappropriate levels of affection
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what did quinton etal discover?
comparing 50 women raised in institutions with 50 who were not - ex-institutionalized women had more trouble parenting
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E1: how may have individual differences played a role in the attachemnt of ERA's?
while most ERA's didn't form attachments outside of the sensitive perod some were able to - Rutter suggests this is because the temperament of the infant may have led to more early attachment experiances
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E2: how do these studies have real life application?
Singer (1985) was able to change the practice of adoption: instead of the mother being encouraged to nurse her baby in the sensitive period prior to adoption. today babies are adopted within 1 week of birth
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E3: what are the advatages of longatudinal studies?
despite the effort and planning involved in them they are emminsly useful: we may otherwise have concluded that poor attachment of orphans was due to the care conditions and that they couldn't recover
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how were the ERA's split up?
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