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Describe and Evaluate research into privation and deprivation.  

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Describe and Evaluate research into privation and deprivation. Deprivation is when you have had something taken away from you. E.g. food. When we talk about attachments, deprivation is the loss of an attachment figure. When an infant has had an attachment and it has been broken. There is research done into deprivation by Bowlby. This is his Maternal deprivation hypothesis, which stated the belief that if an infant was unable to build a "warm, intimate, continuous relationship with its mother", it would then result in having difficulties building relationships with other people and also the risk of behavioural disorders. This hypothesis says that relationships that are discontinuous or where there are separations becomes unstable which causes the development of the relationship to be disrupted. It focuses on how important an relationship between a mother and child is. Also suggested that the development must occur during the critical period. If a child...

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