National Institute Of Child Health And Human Development

Question 0

What research method was used nichd and how many infants were studied and from when to when?

Keywords
Procedure

Answer 0

Longitudinal study

1,200 infants

Birth till when they started school

Question 1

What is the aim of nichd research?

Answer 1

To look at the effects of daycare on children

Question 2

What types of data were gathered in the NICHD?

Answer 2

Observations
Interviews
Surveys

Question 3

What are the 3 conclusions that the NICHD with?

Answer 3

Quality of daycare
Length of time in daycare
Type of daycare

Question 4

Low quality daycare was bad…..

Keyword
Lacked sensitivity

Answer 4

For children who’s mothers lacked sensitivity

Question 5

However high quality daycare….

Answer 5

Improved cognitive abilities

Question 6

What will happen if a child time in daycare is intensive, continuous and they started it from early?

NICHD

Answer 6

It may cause the child to have behavioural problems later in life ?

Question 7

The type of daycare improved…

Answer 7

Language and cognitive development but behavioural problems increased e.g agression and disobedience

as opposed to care in someone’s home which had positive effects

Question 8

The NICHD study is a longitudinal study why is this a strength?

Answer 8

It follows the same children and their initial assessments were directly compared to their later assessments

Also other factors such as birth weight were controlled for when looking at the effects of the development

Question 9

Why is individual differences in the NICHD Study a weakness?

Answer 9

Individual differences could not be controlled for as some children would of been able to deal with separation better than others

Independant child may develop social skills
Shy kid maybe come adversely affected

Question 10

The validity and reliability of results NICHD…

Answer 10

Were verified as the study used a range of methods such as school reports, interviews with parents which helped to finalise the social and cognitive development . Different methods found similar results and the findings could be generalised

Question 11

Belsky and rovine provide criticism to the NICHD STUDY

Answer 11

They suggest that daycare can have negative effects on a child’s emotional development even during the firstbyr of life