Daycare

Question 1

What’s a childminder

Answer 1

Individual care for a very small group of children and it’s usually home based

Question 2

What is daycare nurseries?

Answer 2

Group based care centres for children with a controlled staff-child ratio

Question 3

What is daycare?

Answer 3

Day care involves temporary care for a child provided by someone other than close family and taking place outside the home (excluding school). For example, nurseries or child minders.

Question 4

What is social development

Answer 4

How the infants sociability and socialisation develops in order to gain adequate behaviour for society

Question 5

What are peer relations

Answer 5

The child’s ability to form close or satisfying relationships with other children. These relationships enable infants to create social skills,maintain social relationships and resolve social conflicts

Question 6

What’s aggression?

Answer 6

In psychology, the term aggression refers to a range of behaviors that can result in both physical and psychological harm to oneself, other or objects in the environment. The expression of aggression can occur in a number of ways, including verbally, mentally and physically.

Question 7

Explain NICHD study

Answer 7

Longitudinal study study in America in 1991 and over 1,000 children involved. Found that by the age of 5 the more time in daycare the more aggressive they were later in life. Infants in full time day care were 3x more likely to show aggressiveness.

Question 8

NICHD was supported by

Answer 8

Belsky et al (2007) who looked at the same children after primary education and found that the link between aggressiveness and daycare was still there

Question 9

Explain the EPPE study

Answer 9

European longitudinal study looking at child development between 3 and 7. 3,000 infants studied their home environment and day care experience. They found infants who spent too much time in day care in the first 2 years led to antisocial behaviour later on in life.

Question 10

Problems with day care studies

Answer 10

• individual differences
• can’t control the child’s home life
• quality of daycare - unethical
• age + number of hours - can’t impact when started

Question 11

Which study can support both aggression and peer relations

Answer 11

EPPE

Question 12

Implications of daycare

Answer 12

1. mothers putting babies up for adoption encourages to keep baby for period so they are able to form attachments
2. 15 hours free daycare
3. Good staff to child ratios