Deprivation

Question 1

Define Deprivation

Answer 1

The loss of an attachment

Question 2

Give 4 causes of deprivation

Answer 2

• Daycare
• Divorce
• Death
• Hospitalisation

Question 3

What are the effects of short term deprivation?

Answer 3

• Protest - child shows great distress
• Despair - Apathetic and show self-comforting behaviours
• Detachment - Emotionally unresponsive and reject caregiver

Question 4

What are the effects of long term deprivation?

Answer 4

• Inability to form attachments
• Affectionless psychopathy
• Delinquency (behavioural problems in adolescence)
• Problems with intellectual and emotional development

Question 5

Define Affectionless Psychopathy

Answer 5

Inability to feel remorse

Question 6

Give 4 methods on how to reduce the effects of deprivation

Answer 6

• Continuous substitute figure
• Daycare to provide single carer for child
• Reduce time spent away from attachment figure
• Maintain contact with estranged partner (if due to divorce)

Question 7

How did Bowlby conduct his 44 thieves study?

Answer 7

Used interviews

Question 8

Give 2 results of Bowlby’s 44 thieves

Answer 8

• 17/44 had experienced long term separation for more than 6 months
• 14/44 classed as affectionless

Question 9

Give one strength and one weakness of Bowlbby’s 44 thieves

Answer 9

• Interviews - ricch in depth and detail

- Weakness - subjective (doesn’t consider extraneous variables)

Question 10

How does Bowlby’s 44 thieves support deprivation theory?

Answer 10

Because the adolescents showed delinquency

Question 11

Give 2 supporting studies for deprivation theory

Answer 11

Robertson and Robertson - Children given good quality care can recover from deprivation

Bowlby’s 44 Thieves

Question 12

Give 2 conflicting studies for deprivation theory

Answer 12

Fox - Children raised differently in other cultures don’t suffer these effects - can’t be applied globally

Rutter - States deprivation is the cause of separation, not the other way round

Question 13

How can this theory be used in the real world?

Answer 13

Can be used to help parents with their parenting styles and daycares with their procedures