SES Flashcards

1
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Socioeconomic status

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Measure of social/economic position in relation to others

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2
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The best measures of SES use a composite score

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Derived from

  1. Parent education
  2. Family income
  3. Parent occupation
  4. Area deprivation
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3
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How can we get a comprehensive index of SES in the UK

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IMD (index of multiple deprivation)

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4
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Adler et al., 1999

SES thought to operate at multiple levels

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  1. Social capital
  2. Human capital
  3. Access to opportunities
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5
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Farah et al., 2006

Participants

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Low SES and mid SES households

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Farah et al., 2006

Findings - low SES (3)

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Poorer on:

  1. Language
  2. Memory
  3. Executive functions
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7
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Executive functions are high-level…

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Cog. skills involved in goal-directed thinking

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8
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“High level cognitive skills involved in goal-directed thinking”

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Executive functions

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9
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Executive functions include skills like (2)

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Working memory

Inhibitory control

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10
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Banfield, 1968 (impulse/reward and SES)

Findings

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Ability to resist impulse + appreciate value of future rewards increases with SES

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11
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Banfield 1968

Which social group is more impulsive?

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Lower SES

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12
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Banfield 1968

Lower SES groups

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Are more impulsive with rewards

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13
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How did Farah et al.,s findings conflict Banfield?

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He found no effect of SES on early reward processing

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14
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Farah suggested that the correlation between impulse/SES…

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Might emerge later in childhood (adaptation to contingencies learnt over time)

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15
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Cragg + Gilmore, 2014

Executive functions are

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Important for early maths

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16
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What might be able to account for SES based differences in math skills?

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Individual diffs. in executive functions

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17
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Jordan, Huttenlocher + Levine 1994

Preschool children from lower SES families…

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Begin school with less math knowledge

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18
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Duncan + Brooks-Gunn, 1997

Children from lower SES often arrive

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To school less prepared to learn, placing them at long-term academic risk

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19
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Duncan et al., (2007)

Children from lower SES families often arrive in school less prepared to learn.

Possible reason for this?

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Less exposure to numbers

Knock on effect on later skills

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20
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Starkey + Klein (2008)

Cross-cultural research in…

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China, Japan + US

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21
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Starkey + Klein (2008)

Cross-cultural research

Findings (1)

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  1. SES-related gap in early maths knowledge at age 3
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22
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Starkey + Klein (2008)

Cross-cultural research

The findings suggest that

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Variables linking SES to math are present early in life

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23
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Which researchers found that the SES gap widens with time?

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Rathbun + West (2004)

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24
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Rathbun + West (2004)

The SES gap widened…

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Over the first 4 years of primary school

25
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Rathbun + West (2004)

Findings (2)

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  1. Math achievement gap at school entry

2. Gap widened over first 4 years of school

26
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Rathbun + West (2004)

WHY might the gap widen over time?

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Early math skills set a foundation for more advanced concepts

27
Q

There appears to be a ________ between SES and math achievement

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Linear relationship

28
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Duncan + Magnuson (2012)

The gap between lowest/highest SES groups are roughly twice as large as bottom and middle. This suggests

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A fairly linear SES gradient for maths

29
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Mediation Model for SES and Math Skills includes (3)

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  1. SES
  2. Executive functions
  3. Math skills
30
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The mediation model

What mediates the relationship between SES and math skills?

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Executive functions

31
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A mediator variable

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One that EXPLAINs the relationship between IV and DV

32
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Two main theoretical accounts of WHY the link between SES and poor achievement

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  1. Investment model

2. Stress model

33
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Lareau (2002)

Identified two parenting styles

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  1. ‘Concerted cultivation’

2. ‘Natural growth’

34
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Lareau (2002)

Natural growth

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Development naturally unfolds as long as love/support/food etc is there

35
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Lareau (2002)

‘Concerted cultivation’

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Deliberate/sustained effort to stimulate development/cog skills

36
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Who found the two parenting styles - natural growth and concerted cultivation?

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Concerted cultivation

Natural growth

37
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Lareau (2002)

Which social group adopted the ‘natural growth’ style of parenting

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Low SES

38
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Investment Model - how does it link SES to development

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Low SES have less capital

Unable to invest as much in children

39
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Investment model + stress model

Are they mutually exclusive?

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No

40
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The investment and stress model are not ___________

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Mutually exclusive

41
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Investment model

Lower SES families …. (3)

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  1. Less cognitive stimulation
  2. Less resources (e.g. games targeting academic skills)
  3. Fewer tools for maths thinking
42
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Evans, 2004 (cognitive stimulation)

Lower SES children (3)

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Read less often
Watch more TV
Attend lower qual daycare

43
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Crosnoe et al., 2010

Availability of games/materials targeting academic skills in the home….

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Predicts early math scores

44
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Starkey et al., 1999 (investment model)

Method

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Asked low/mid SES parents about nature/frequency of maths activities provided

45
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Starkey et al., 1999 (investment model)

FIndings (mid-SES)

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More likely to have range of maths activities. Broader/played with more frequently

46
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Blevins-Knabe + Musun-Miller (1996)

Found that frequency in which children engaged in number-related activities….

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Positively correlated with their maths skills

47
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Levine et al., (2010)

Parental practices early in development predict math skills…

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Longitudinally

48
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Chronic stress

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Stress that persists abnormally/lasts for a long time

49
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Blevins-Knabe + Musun-Miller (1996)

Investigated the relation between

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Parent math practices + child’s maths skills

50
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Blair et al., (2011)

Stress Model

Stress response systems….

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Develop in a way that promotes REACTIVE responses rather than REFLECTIVE SELF-REGULATION

51
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Blair et al., (2011)

In __________ environments, stress-response systems develop

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Low-response and unpredictable

52
Q

Blair et al., (2011)

RQ: What are the direct…

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Effects of stress on cognitive development?

53
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Blair et al., (2011)

Effects of chronic stress on development

Findings (1)

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  1. High salivary cortisol at 7/15/24m predicted lower EF at age 3
54
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How can stress affect memories?

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Formation of new memories from both pre and post traumatic event

55
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Sauro, Jorgenson + Pedlow (2003)

If a child is bullied on the way to school,

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They will remember that clearly

Memories for rest of day less clear

56
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Fischer et al., (2006)

Participants

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Foster children with dysfunctional activity in HPA axis

57
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Fischer et al., (2006)

Method

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Parental intervention

58
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Fischer et al., (2006)

What was the parental intervention designed to do

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Help them identify stress in infants/respond in sensitive way

59
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Fischer et al., (2006)

Findings

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Reduced HPA activity 9 months later due to nurturing parenting