Research into day care

Question 1

what did Bowlby predict of daycare

Answer 1

that it is a form of short term deprivation which could damage the attachment formed.

Question 2

what is daycare

Answer 2

when a child is looked after by a child-minder or nursery throughout the day.

Question 3

what are factors that affect daycare

Answer 3

Quality of care - such as low staff turnover, high staff to child ration and staff training
Individual differences - some children are able to cope with separation better than others, shy children may obtain more adverse affects.

Question 4

what are two studies showing Positive effects of day care

Answer 4

Sylva
Anderson

Question 5

what did the study done by Sylva show

Answer 5

-Sylva did a longitiudinal study on 3000 UK children. -home schooled children acted as a control group and the study showed:
-they found the earlier the child started day care, the better the intellectual improvement.
- positive effects were still evident in key stage 1

Question 6

what did the study done by Anderson show

Answer 6

• they conducted a longitudinal study on 119 Swedish children up to their 8th birthday.
• the children that attended day care had more friends and were more socially outgoing.

Question 7

what are the studies showing negative affects of day care

Answer 7

Belsky
NICHD

Question 8

what did the study done by Belsky show

Answer 8

• they drew findings from 2 longitudinal studies
• they found that there was a higher incidence rate of Type A children who were in day care more than 20 hours a week

Question 9

what did the study done by NICHD show

Answer 9

• was a longitudinal study till children were aged 15
• 1200 children were involved.
• they found that children in more intensive times at day care had more behavioural problems such as aggression
• although why had improvements to cognitive and language development.