Institutionalisation

Question 1

Who created the English and Romanian adoptees study?

Answer 1

Rutter et al

Question 2

Rutter procedures?

Answer 2

Longitudinal study
165 Romanian orphans
Poor conditions before being adopted in the uk
Physical emotional and cognitive development has been assessed at 4,6,11,15,22 and 25
Control- 52uk adopted kids

Question 3

How many orphans showed intellectual development when they came to the uk?

Answer 3

Half

Question 4

At 11 recovery rates where related to age of adoption what was meanIQ for adopted before 6 months and after 2 years ?

Answer 4

Before 6 months -102
After 2 years was -77

Question 5

What was apparent in children adopted after six months?

Answer 5

Clinginess, attention seeking and indiscriminate affection to strangers which was rare in children before 6 months

Question 6

Rutters findings …Bowlbys view that there is a … period in … of attachments. … to form attachment before 6 months have … lasting effects.

Answer 6

Support
Sensitive
Development
Failure
Long

Question 7

2 strengths of RO

Answer 7

+real world application
+ fewer confounding variables as they were on institutionalised

Question 8

2 limitations

Answer 8

-socially sensitive
-lack of data on adult development(only data on early twenties)