General Questions Flashcards
What is a meta analysis?
A study that takes an overview of the results to many other studies around a particular subject/experiment and draws conclusions of its own.
What’s a Kubutz?
A Jewish communal care centre where many Jewish caregivers leave their baby to be tended to by other caregivers
What was Goldfarb in 1946 responsible for?
He found a lower IQ in children who had remained institutionalised than those who were fostered, this supports Bowlby’s theory of maternal deprivation.
What is an affactionless psychopath?
A term coined by Bowlby to describe the outcome of a person who has suffered great deprivation or privation of early attachment. They have little to no empathy and guilt. Bowlby also found that it correlated with low physical and intellectual development.
What is Rutter and Songua-Barke’s ERA project?
A longitudinal study using a sample of 165 Romanian orphans, 111 were adopted by the age of 2, 54 were adopted by the age of 4. They were compared to a control group of 52 British orphans were cognitive and physical development.
What were the results of the ERA project?
All the Romanian orphans were classed as mentally retarded however those adopted before 6 months showed signs of recovery.
What were the mean IQs of the Romanian orphans in the ERA study?
Adopted before 6 months = 102
Between 6 months and 2 years = 86
Post 2 years = 77, mental retardation
Who was Laura and how does it relate to Bowlby?
Laura was an infant that Bowlby recorded the distress of whilst isolated from her mother in a hospital. This was used as further evidence not to separate mother from child to a board of medical professionals.
When is the critical period according to Bowlby?
The first 2 years of life.
Bailey, what did they do?
Evaluated 99 mother-infant relationships using interviews and observations
What did Bailey conclude from his research?
That mother who had rated their own early attachments as poorer showed poorer attachments to their own children.
Guiton, he looked at imprinting, how?
Gunton looked at leghorn chicks and how they imprinted to yellow rubber gloves, used to feed them. The male chickens sexually imprinted onto it, they began trying to mate with similar rubber gloves
What two hormones are released after birth that make people more caring and empathetic?
Oestrogen and Oxytonin
What did Grossman conclude?
The role of the father as a secondary attachment is mainly to play an important role in a child’s development.
Who disputed Grossman’s conclusions?
MacCallum and Golombok
