effects of daycare on coginitve and devlopment

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Priya Ambikai-Palan

Discuss the effects of day care on social and cognitive development?

Daycare is when an infant is put in to an institution like a nursery or a child-minder looks after the infant because the parents are working.  Research concluded daycare would not be damaging if the care was of high quality, there was low staff turnover and there were plenty of stimulating activities fro the infant.

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Cognitive development refers to the growth of cognitive functions, such as thinking, reasoning and linguistic skills. Scarr 1998 experiment concluded that children from low-income families’ benefit from high-quality day care. The children showed better school achievements and were sociable.

However the effects of daycare have been shown to be harmful on the growth of the cognitive functions. . For example, a study by Baydar and Brooks-Gunn, 1991 compared the cognitive ability of children whose mothers went to work either before or after their child was one year old. The findings showed that the cognitive ability of those children who ...

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