bowlby's maternal deprivation theory

• Seperation

  The child not being in the presence of a parental figure
• Deprivation

  Extended seperations resulting in a loss of attachment
• Intellectual development

  The growth of a child's ability to think and reason
• IQ

  A measure of intelligence, where a score of 100 is average
• Critical period

  The first 30 months (2.5 yrs) of life where Bowlby believed seperation from a careguver would have severe consequences for development
• Emotional development

  The ability to recognise, express and manage feelings at different stages of life as well as having empathy for others
• Affectionless psychopathy

  Inability to experience guilt for actions or show empathy to others
• Delinquency

  Minor crime or behavioural problems
• Irreversibility

  Unable to go back and change
• Privation

  Failure to form an attachment in the first place
• Maternal deprivation

  When children are seperated from an attachment figure during a critical period, they suffer long- term psychological effects that are irreversible
• What are the effects of maternal deprivation?

  • Impaired emotional development; lashing out
  • Impaired cognitive development; low IQ
  • Impaired behavioural development; deliquency
• What is the PDD model?

  The 3 stages of emotion that children display when seperated from their main caregiver:

  • Protest - anger, cry for attention
  • Despair - apathetic, refusing comfort, thumb sucking
  • Detachment - reject caregiver on return