Romanian orphans

Question 1

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Answer 1

Rutter and songa barke
They led a study called era including 165 romanian children who spent their early lives in insitution so experienced the effects of institutionalisation
111 were adopted before the age of two and the rest were by the age of 4
Adoptees were tested at regular intervals to test cogitive and social development, compared with a control group of 52 british children adopted in the uk before age of 6 mo
smaller weighed less and classed as mentally retarded, however some children caught up with british counterparts by age 4
Significant deficiets remain in a substantial minority of children in the institution to beynond 6 months
Many adopted after age of 6 mo showed disinhibited attachments and had problems with peer relationships, showing that long term consequences can be less severe if the people have a chnace to form attachments again, if they dont conq are severe

Question 2

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Answer 2

Zenah et all compared 136 romanian children who spent 90 percent of their lives in an insitiution , agsint kids who didnt children were age 12-31 months and assesed in the strange situation
Findings- physical underdevelopment, usually physically small, lack of emotional care rather than poor nourishment is the cause od deprivation dwarfism
Intellecutal underfunctioning- cognitive development is effected by emotional deprivation
-Poor parenting- they come out to be poor parents, harlow showed that monkeys raised by a surrogate mother turned out to be bad parents
- Disinhibted attachment-children to not discriminate between people for who is their primary attachment figure, seek attention from strangers

Question 3

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Answer 3

Good real world application of romanian orphans studies, greater understanding of how institutional effects can cause undevelopment physically, cognitivley and emotionally
Leads to improvements in conditions of looked after children in orphanages
Institutional care has also been avoided with high effort placed on orphans
Adoptions usually happen in the first week of a childrens life

Question 4

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Answer 4

• Few confounding variables as children from these studies have commonalities
  Most have been given up by loving families( too poor to look after a large family) rather than being insitutionalised because of war abuse parental death or other events
  Means fewer confounding variables give this study a higher internal validity

Question 5

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Answer 5

Data was not followed into adult hood, lack of data from romanians in their adult lives, raises questions about the long term impacts of institutionalisation such as mental health, forming adult relationships and maintaining employment and care
Meaning people who didnt develop in line with the control group might have if the data had been gathered into adult hood

Question 6

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Answer 6

Romanian studies have confounding variables, romanian orphans which took part in this study did not just suffer from emotional neglect, there was lack of physical care and emotional stimulation
meaning that findings may be due to poor institutional care rather than the insitution itself
this means results cannot be generalised at all