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What is the focus of research on maternal deprivation?
Effects
of deprivation on development
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What tragic opportunity arose in Romania in the 1990s?
Studying effects of
institutional
care
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Who required Romanian women to have five children?
Former President
Nicolai Ceausescu
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What happened to many Romanian children due to poverty?
They ended up in huge orphanages
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What happened after the 1989 Romanian revolution regarding children?
Many children were
adopted
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What is the name of the study conducted by Michael Rutter and colleagues?
English and Romanian adoptee (ERA)
study
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What was the aim of the ERA study?
Investigate
effects
of good care on
development
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How many Romanian orphans were followed in the ERA study?
165
orphans
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At what ages was the development of the orphans assessed?
4
,
6
,
11
,
15
, and
22-25
years
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What group served as a control in the ERA study?
52
children from the
UK
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What signs did half of the adoptees show upon arrival in the UK?
Delayed intellectual development
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What was the condition of many adoptees when they arrived in the UK?
Severely undernourished
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How did the mean IQ of children adopted before six months compare to others?
Higher
than those
adopted later
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What was the mean IQ of children adopted before six months?
102
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What was the mean IQ of children adopted between six months and two years?
86
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What was the mean IQ of children adopted after two years?
77
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What condition was more common in older adoptees?
ADHD
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What attachment style was observed in children adopted after six months?
Disinhibited attachment
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What are symptoms of disinhibited attachment?
Attention-seeking
and
clinginess
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How did children adopted before six months differ in attachment style?
Rarely displayed
disinhibited
attachment
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How does the age of adoption affect intellectual development in Romanian orphans?
Earlier adoption leads to higher
IQ scores
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What is the relationship between institutional care and emotional development?
Poor
care leads to emotional
difficulties
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