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Sunday, 04 January 2009 14:44
Implications of Research into Daycare for Childcare Practice
Written by Keiron Walsh
Research into daycare has identified several factors that have important implications about what makes high quality daycare:
Consistency of Care
Daycare staff are sensitive
Low Staff to Child Ratios
Well Trained Staff
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Sunday, 04 January 2009 14:08
The Impact of Daycare on Children’s Social Development
Written by Keiron Walsh
Day care refers to non-parental care of children who live with their parents. This means that foster care is not included, nor is residential care (Scarr, 1998). Bowlby would predict that the separation that occurs in daycare would adversely affect children's social development. On the other hand, as some types of daycare provide children with opportunities to interact with other children that they would not otherwise have, daycare could have a positive effect on their social development. This article will examine some of the evidence on the impact of daycare on children's social development.
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Sunday, 28 September 2008 11:47
Types of Attachment and Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation Studies
Written by Keiron Walsh
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Behaviourists argue that all behaviours, including attachment behaviours, are acquired through learning and that learning takes place through the processes of classical conditioning and operant conditioning.
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attachment can be defined as:
"...the strong, affectional tie we feel for special people in our lives that leads us to feel pleasure and joy when we interact with them and to be comforted by their nearness in time of stress" (Berk, 1998).
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John Bowlby's explanation of attachment was strongly influenced-by the research and theories of ethologists such as Konrad Lorenz who investigated imprinting in geese.
Bowlby reasoned that attachment serves a biological purpose: to keep parents nearby so that infants are protected from danger. Bowlby argued that evolutionary pressures have led humans to develop an attachment behavioural system which activates behaviours that cause caregivers to remain close when the child is anxious (e.g., crying, clinging, intense protest, and searching).
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Sunday, 14 September 2008 11:14
Evaluation of the Learning Theory of Attachment
Written by Keiron Walsh
On the positive side, the learning theory of attachment seems
a plausible explanation of both how babies become attached to their
caregivers and how caregivers bond with their children. It makes
intuitive sense that babies will come to like those who feed them
because they derive pleasure from feeding. Nevertheless, there is
evidence that children develop attachments with people who do not feed
them and that feeding is less important in the development of
attachments than other behaviours.
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The Case of Genie
Genie was discovered when she was 13 years old. She had been kept in a small room and not spoken to since she was an infant. She could not stand erect and could not speak, she could only whimper. Naturally she attracted the attention of many psychologists and linguists who were keen to study her. She was given the Vineland Social Maturity Scale and the Preschool Attainment Record, on which she scored as low as a normal one year old. Her linguistic abilities were very poor: she could only understand her own name and the word ‘sorry’. She was unsocialised, she did not know how to chew, salivated constantly and was not toilet trained.
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