Child key question Flashcards
AO1 - What is daycare?
Care provided to a child by someone other than a parent, usually in the form of a day nursery
AO2 - What is the correct ratio for children under 2 to members of staff and why is this good?
3:1 so they can provide enough attention and cognitive stimulation?
AO2 - What is a key worker and why are they neeeded?
The named member of staff responsible for the wellbeing of specific students who they are to attach to
AO2 - What level of qualification do nursery staff need to be classed as ‘good quality’ in Campbell?
at least Level 2 so that they’re trained in proper methods of childcare and cognitive stimulation
AO2 - Why is low staff turnover good for children?
It lets children form attachments and the children to understand the children better
AO2- What are the benefits of daycare?
Improved confidence, possibly improved cognition/language, more sociable (or understand social rules e.g. sharing)
AO2 - What are the drawbacks of daycare?
Effects attachment style, makes children more aggressive
AO3 - What did EPPE/Sylva (2004) find about disadvantage background?
Daycare was more important/effective for these children
AO3 - What did EPPE/Sylva (2004) find about hours in daycare?
Part-time provides no significant difference to children than full-time
AO3 - What did Andresson find about daycare?
children who went to high quality day care before the age of one were more socially and cognitively advanced by the age of 8.
AO3 - What did Li find out about Daycare?
Children in high quality daycare improved their academic abilities, memory abilities and language abilities
AO3 - What did Belsky and Rovine find about daycare?
that children who were put into day care for 20 hours a week, before they were one, had an insecure avoidant attachment
AO3 - What did Campbell find out about daycare hours?
Children who spent long days in day care (e.g. from 8am to 6pm) under age 3 were less socially competent. Children who spent more days in day care, but shorter days, were more socially competent
AO3 - What did Clarke & Stewart find about daycare?
Children who had attended nurseries could cope better in social situations, and were able to interact better with peers, compared with children previously looked after in family settings. They also found it didn’t effect attachment style
AO3 - What did Sammons find about daycare?
Analysed data and showed that there is a slight risk of antisocial behaviour when children spend more than 20 hours per week in nurseries.
AO3 - What did DiLalla find about daycare?
negative correlation between the amount of time spent in day care and pro-social behaviour
AO3 - What did Shea find about daycare?
Children became more sociable the longer they were in day care
AO3 - What did EPPE find about cognitive and social development?
high quality day care benefitted cognitively and socially and they showed more independence
AO3 - What did Pennebaker find about daycare?
Shy children do less well in daycare settings and will receive less benefits
AO3 - What did ALSPAC show about daycare?
Looking at 14,000 children daycare had no impact on antisocial behaviour or aggression
AO3 - What did Tizard find about daycare?
It had less cognitive benefits than being at home due to greater attention and enrichment in conversations from mothers
AO3 - What did the NICHD find about daycare?
Children in daycare had more aggression and 3 times the amount of temper tantrums
AO1 - why do parents sent their child to day care?
To allow them to go back to work after the birth?
AO1 - what is the average monthly cost of day care?
£945 per month for 35 hours a week
