-First 30 months is critical and if the child is separated from its mother without a suitable substitute for an extended period of time that psychological damage was inevitable
What are some emotional and intellectual effects of deprivation?
-Delinquency
-problems with cognitive development (low IQ)
-an inability to form attachments in the future
-affectionless psychopathy
Bowlby also conducted the 44 thieves study..
-ppts were 44 criminal teens that had been accused of stealing.
-Bowlby interviewed them to look for sings of affectionless psychopathy
Bowlby also...
-interviewed the families in order to establish whether the thieves had had prolonged separations from their mothers.
-a control group of non criminals was used as a comparison
What were the findings
-14/44 could be described as affectionless psychopaths.
-of this 14 ,12 had experienced prolonged separation from their mothers during the first 2 years of life
5 of the remaining 30
-had experienced seperation but showed no sings of affectionless psychopathy.
of the control group
-2 had experienced long term separation
Bowlby concluded
-that prolonged early deprivation caused affectionless psychopathy
