Outline and evaluate research into the effects of day-care on childrens social development

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Albina Bekteshi

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Outline and evaluate research into the effects of day-care on children’s social development. (12 Marks)

Shea is a study made to examine the influences of day care on children’s behavioural and social developments.

This investigation was produced by videotaping infants at the nursery in the playground aged between 3 and 4. The infant’s behaviour was evaluated in relations of aggression, rough-and-tumble play, and frequency of peer interactions, distance from the nearest child and distance from the teacher.

The results of the observation shows that in the duration of the ten weeks the infants peer interactions had risen and the distance from the teacher reduced. The results also show a cut in aggression and a rise in rough and tumble play. The rise in social behaviour seemed more clearly in the infant that attended the nursery 5-days-a-week rather than those who attended 2-days-a-week.

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The researchers concluded that day care increases the chance of infants to develop into becoming more sociable and less aggressive.

In general the study was a naturalistic observation which means that there was no controlled variable therefore the study has high ecological validity due to none of the behaviours being manipulated.
Due to the independent variables not being controlled this makes the observation an advantage because in other situations it would be unethical to manipulate the variables and in this study it always the researches the examine what would be unethical for them to control e.g. the observer cannot control ...

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Shows awareness of the nature of observational studies - somewhat superficial analysis of the possible variables that might influence the social development of children. More evaluation needed. 3*