Evaluate Bowlby’s Deprivation Hypothesis In his hypothesis, Bowlby believed that an infant’s failure to attach to a primary caregiver would have long term effects. This essay will attempt to evaluate Bowlby’s deprivation hypothesis. Firstly, the terms ‘attachment’ and ‘deprivation’ will be defined. Following that, a full definition of the hypothesis will be made, and then an attempt will be made to describe and understand the studies and period of history that lead …showed first 75 words of 1500 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1500 total…where the infant is an active participant in eliciting care. The criticisms served to refine this theory in several important ways: to include multiple attachments, to place less emphasis on mother-love and to distinguish between different kinds of deprivation. McFaydon (1994) suggests that many critics ‘seem almost to have got stuck in a time warp, hanging on to [Bowlby’s] early ideas, which were of course extremely controversial but also important and influential at the time’.