7.1.4 Day care: advantages, disadvantages and quality Quiz: Pearson Edexcel Psychology, Unit 7

The 20 questions

1. Which outcome is a recognised social advantage of young children attending day care?

   • Increased stranger anxiety
   • Improved peer interaction
   • Lower intellectual ability
   • Delayed language acquisition

2. Which outcome is a potential disadvantage associated with children attending day care?

   • Delayed motor development
   • Increased peer aggression
   • Enhanced secure attachment
   • Reduced illness exposure

3. Which feature is characteristic of high-quality day care provision?

   • Large group sizes
   • Low staff-child ratio
   • Unstructured free time
   • High staff turnover

4. What does the term staff-to-child ratio mean in day care settings?

   • Children per adult
   • Hours per staff
   • Adults per room
   • Children per room

5. Which major longitudinal study investigated the long-term effects of day care on children?

   • 44 Thieves study
   • Strange Situation
   • NICHD study
   • Minnesota twin study

6. Which feature is typically associated with poor-quality day care provision?

   • Stimulating environments
   • Low child ratios
   • High staff turnover
   • Highly qualified staff

7. What is a main benefit of good-quality day care on child social development?

   • Lower emotional stability
   • Higher separation anxiety
   • Increased social competence
   • Increased peer conflict

8. A day care centre has 24 children and a staff-child ratio of 1:4. How many staff are needed?

   • 24
   • 6
   • 4
   • 96

9. A class of 20 children has 5 staff. What is the staff-child ratio?

   • 1:5
   • 4:1
   • 1:20
   • 1:4

10. Why can researchers not claim that long day care hours directly cause behavioural issues?

    • Correlation not causation
    • High internal validity
    • Standardised procedure
    • Demand characteristics

11. What outcome is most likely for children attending day care with stable, qualified staff?

    • Increased separation distress
    • Better emotional security
    • Higher peer aggression
    • Lower cognitive scores

12. A child's reaction to day care depends partly on their personality traits. What concept is this?

    • Monotropy
    • Maternal deprivation
    • Individual differences
    • Institutionalisation

13. What common methodological issue arises when using parental questionnaires to measure day care quality?

    • Observer effect
    • Demand characteristics
    • Experimenter bias
    • Social desirability bias

14. Which research design is best suited to study how day care quality affects later attachment?

    • Unstructured observation
    • Longitudinal study
    • Case study
    • Snapshot survey

15. Why does finding a statistical link between day care and aggression not prove causation?

    • Data is qualitative
    • Correlation excludes causation
    • Observations lack validity
    • Samples are unrepresentative

16. How many hours per year would a child spend in care if they attended 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 40 weeks?

    • 800
    • 2000
    • 1600
    • 400

17. Which primary ethical issue must researchers address when observing young children in day care?

    • Right to publish
    • Deception of staff
    • Informed parental consent
    • Financial compensation

18. Which term describes socio-economic status when it affects both day care attendance and child development?

    • Moderating variable
    • Confounding variable
    • Dependent variable
    • Independent variable

19. Which factor strongly influences whether day care has a positive or negative effect on child development?

    • Maternal age
    • Care quality
    • Infant gender
    • Birth order

20. Which structural factor is key when assessing the quality of a day care setting?

    • Building age
    • Total opening hours
    • Child attendance rate
    • Staff-child ratio

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