Outline and Evaluate research into privation AO1 Privation is when a child has the right to form an attachment to a primary care giver taken away from them; the option to make these crucial attachments isn’t there. If Bowlby’s theory is correct‚ then because of this inability to form attachments‚ infants should grow up struggling to form relationships and attachments to anyone else. AO1 P: Evidence looking at the effects of privation comes from the case of Genie. E: She was 13 years old
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Outline and evaluate research into privation A01 Genie was a young girl who was locked in a room by her father due to his belief that she was mentally retarded‚ however when she was discovered at 13 years old‚ it was too late to test this. Because Genie had never formed an attachment; her level of speech was very low and even now has not fully recovered with still social responsiveness lack. Czech Twins‚ who spent their first 7 years of life locked up by their stepmother and because of their
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Outline and evaluate research into the effects of failure to form attachment (privation). Students are likely to describe cases of isolated children such as the Czech twins or Genie. Relevant studies of institutional care include Hodges and Tizard‟s longitudinal study of 65. British children from early life to adolescence and Rutter‟s study of Romanian orphans adopted by British families. Earlier research such as Skodak & Skeels or Spitz & Wolf may also be cited. Animal research‚ such as that of
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Cameron Outline and evaluate the research on privation Privation is a state in which things necessary for well-being‚ such as food and warmth are never given to someone. There is many cases of privation but the two I will cover are Genie and the Czech twins‚ a recent case of privation that has been discovered is the institutions in Romania and the neglect of children that lead to not only mental disabilities but severe physical ones too. Genie is a classic case of severe privation‚ where by
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Outline and evaluate research into types of attachment. Ainsworth conducted a study to observe types of attachment behaviours with occur between a mother and a child. She used observation to witness these behaviours. By placing the child in a set up play room with one way glass allowed natural behaviour to be observed without interference from the psychologist. Ainsworth used several situations including a mother a child and a stranger. Firstly the mother and the child entered the room‚ the child
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Outline and evaluate research into obedience (Milgram) Milgram carried out a series of studies to try to shed some light on the aspect of human behaviour. He studied a thousand participants who were representative of the general population. He discovered that under certain situational influences most of us would conform to what is needed to be done. His study of obedience was done in a lab in Yale University and the experimenter wore a long grey coat which reinforced his authority and status. Then
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‘Some children seem to recover from the effect of privation‚ but others do not’ outline research into the effects of privation and consider the extent to which the effects of privation can be reversed. Privation is a lack or absence of basic needs or comforts of life‚ many psychologists have studied the effects of privation on children of certain ages and backgrounds‚ and analysed how they recover. One of these studies was that of Koluchova she studied a pair of Czech twins who had been locked
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Outline and evaluate research into maternal deprivation. (18 marks) Bowlby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis suggests that bond disruption between the infant and caregiver in the early years can have detrimental and irreversible effects on the intellectual‚ social‚ and emotional development of the child. He carried out the study on 44 juvenile thieves (that were transferred to his institution)‚ whom he compared to a group of 44 controls. It was a retrospective study using interviews and questionnaires
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Privation is when a child never forms attachment. A study of privation includes the case study of Genie and Czech twins. Genie was a young girl who was kept in isolation due to her father’s belief that she was mentally retarded‚ however as she was discovered at age 13‚ it was too late to test this. Because Genie never formed attachment‚ her level of speech was very low and even now‚ has not recovered as upon discovery she was kept in the care of many different psychologists and then was restored
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Obedience is when an individual responds to an order from an authority figure. A key study that has looked into research is one carried out by Milgrams in 1963. The aim of the experiment was investigate whether ordinary people will obey a legitimate authority figure even when required to injure an innocent person. Milgrams recruited 40 male participants by advertising for volunteers to take part in his study. Each participant would be paid $4.50. The experiment consisted of one ‘real’ participant
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