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Monday, 23 January 2012 05:00
Nurturing mothers rear physically healthier adults
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Nurturing mothers rear physically healthier adults
Study shows childhood experiences have long-term effects on health in midlife
Nurturing mothers have garnered accolades for rescuing skinned knees on the playground and coaxing their children to sleep with lullabies. Now they're gaining merit for their offspring's physical health in middle age.
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Wednesday, 22 December 2010 10:50
Tizard & Hodges (1984 & 1989) : Effects of Emotional Privation
Written by Laura Saunders
They carried out a natural experiment studying 65 children bought up in a children's home until the age of 4. During this time the children were unable to form an attachment to any of the adults as staff were discouraged from doing so to prevent upsetting the children when they left the job.
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Monday, 20 December 2010 15:52
Cases of Extreme Privation - Skuse (1984): Mary & Louise
Written by Laura Saunders
Mary and Louise were sisters who were tied to a bed with dog leads and had blankets put over them to prevent them from making noise. They were found when Louise was 3.5 years old and Mary was 2.5 years.
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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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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 09:56
Bowlby's Evolutionary Explanation of Attachment
Written by Keiron Walsh
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.
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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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