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“Bowlby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis states that any separation during the critical stage of development will affect the child in later life” Critically consider this statement in reference to cognitive and for social development.
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"Bowlby's maternal deprivation hypothesis states that any separation during the critical stage of development will affect the child in later life" Critically consider this statement in reference to cognitive and for social development. Concerns about the long-term effects of separation were given an impetus by Bowlby's report in 1944 that delinquency was associated with young children's separation from their mother. He suggested that the separation was the cause of the delinquency. Bowlby developed the idea that if an infant was unable to develop a 'warm, intimate and continuous relationship with his mother' then the child would have difficulty forming relationships with other people and be at risk of behavioural disorders. This became known as the 'maternal deprivation hypothesis'. One source of evidence was his own research, but there were a number of other studies conducted around the time of the Second World War that indicated a key role for...
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