PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gruel, Cortisol, Abecedarian Early Intervention Project

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1001
• Professor: Caleb Owens

Document Summary

Impoverished early environments: monkey experiments, orphanages, postnatal depression, class differences. Preschool interventions to enrich early environments: head start, abecedarian program, background. Harlow: study of mother-infant bonds in monkeys (suomi & Harlow 1972: investigations into the effects of total social isolation for varying periods of early life. Social rehabilitation of isolate reared monkeys: the severity of the behavioural disruption depends upon both duration of isolation and age at which it begins, isolation for the first 3 months: Psyc1001 lecture 1 developmental psychology: effects of early social deprivation: Orphanage studies: descriptions of typical institutions in the (cid:883)9(cid:886)(cid:882)(cid:495)s: (cid:498)the children had been reared in institutions outstanding for their standards of physical hygiene. To prevent epidemic infection babies below nine months of age were kept singly in separate cubicles. They had brief, hurried contacts with adults when they were cleaned and fed by the nurse. During the first year of life, therefore, each child lived in almost complete isolation. (cid:499) (cid:523)goldfarb, (cid:887)(cid:895)55, p (cid:887)(cid:886)(cid:894)(cid:524).