romanian orphanages

• Who’s the psychologist under this study

  Rutter and songua-brake
• what type of study was it

  longitudinal / ERA
• what is the aim

  can good care makeup for poor early experience in institutions ?
• what is the procedure

  looked at physical, cognitive, emotional developments between ages of 4,6,11,15,22,25 years.

  followed 165 Romanian orphans adopted to families in the uk and compared them to 52 british adopted children.
• what were the findings

  2010 the Romanian children all had poorer cognitive,social and physical development.

  by the age of 4 some Romanians has caught up to the british peers.

  those adopted after 6 months had toy left getting on with their peers and demonstrated disinhibited attachment types.
• what are disinhibited attachments

  no stranger anxiety so will communicate with strangers in the same way as people they know.
• what are poor intellectual developments

  low IQ than those who have not been institutionalised.
• what are poorer physical development

  physically smaller than those who have not been institutionalised
• what was the first step of Zeenah et als study

  1)assessed attachment in 95 romanian children who has spent almost all their lives intitutionalised.
• what was the second step of Zeenah et als study

  their attachment types were measured with the strange situation and then compared their findings to a control group.
• what was the third step of Zeenah et als study

  19% of the romanian children had been classified as securely attached in comparison to the 74% in the control group who were securely attached
• whats a strength of this study

  important implications

  this study has improved the living standards for children in orphanges.

  babies are now given adoptive parents soon after birth.

  therefore we can see this improves lives for children.
• whats a weakness of this study

  socially sensitive.

  makes orphans appear inferior, could limit their opportunities in terms of jobs if we are suggesting they have lower IQ.

  they also may get treated differently by adopted parents and teachers etc.

  therefore this can lead to self fufilling prophecy.
• What's another weakness of this study

  lack of adult data.

  the long term effects are not yet clear.

  the studies we've looked into have followed up on fostered and adopted orphans into their mid teens and found some lasting effects on early expeience.

  Therefore because its too soon to to say whether children suffered fom short term/ long term effects it may not be 100% true.
• whats the final weakness of this study

  self report techniques.

  interviews are often used to gather data.

  demand characteristics may be present which lowers validity of the data.

  therefore, strange situation used has reduced validity.