Effects Of Institutionalistaion

Question 1

Strength: higher control over extraneous variables

Answer 1

In previous orphan studies the children had often experienced trauma, neglect or abuse before being institutionalised, difficult to tell if any long term effects were due to the neglect and abuse or institutional care, in RUTTERS research majority of orphans were handed over by loving parents who couldn’t afford to keep them, possible to study effects of institutionalisation without confounding variables, increases internal Val

Question 2

Weakness: different confounding variables

Answer 2

Quality of care in institutions was very poor, children received very little intellectual stimulation or comfort, harmful effects seen in studies of Romanian orphans may be due to the effect of poor care rather than institutional care on its own

Question 3

Strength: RTS by ZENNAH ET AL

Answer 3

Zeanah compared attachment types of 9-5 Romanian orphans and a control group of Romanians who had never been in an institution using the strange situation, found that 44% of Romanian orphans showed signs of disinhibited attachment, 20% of control group, increases internal Val of RUTTERS