Individualistic - Bowlby's maternal deprevation theory

Question 1

Who was the theorist?

Answer 1

Edward Bowlby

Question 2

What link did he make?

Answer 2

maternal deprevation and anti social behaviour

Question 3

What did he say a child needs in early life?

Answer 3

a close, continuous relationship with its primary caregiver from ages 0-5

Question 4

What did Bowlby say would happen if a child attachment with parent is broken?

Answer 4

It can lead to affectionless psychopathy (lack of remorse for crime) and overall criminality

Question 5

What did he base his study on? describe the experiment.

Answer 5

In a study of 44 juvenile thieves and 44 juvenile non-thieves he found that 39% of the theives had experienced maternal deprevation as opposed to 5% of non delinquents

Question 6

What was a limitation of bowlbys theory?

Answer 6

His research into children isolated with tuberculosis did not support his maternal deprevation findings