AO3: Maternal deprivation

Cards (3)

Limitation: Flawed evidence
What? Poor quality evidence
Who? Bowlby's 44 thieves - biased by Bowlby + Bowlby influenced by Goldfarb's research which had confounding variables
Why? Serious flaws in evidence
Limitation: Deprivation and privation
What? Confusion between different types of early experience
Who? Rutter - Long-term damage the result of privation (failure to form an attachment) instead of deprivation (loss of attachment figure)
Why? Overestimated seriousness of deprivation
Limitation: Critical vs sensitive periods
What? Critical period
Who? Koluchova - twins who'd not formed an attachment in critical period eventually formed one with care
Why? Critical period best seen as sensitive period