Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ethical Dilemma, Limbic System, Dementia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

High quality day care provides: stimulating environment with well-trained caretakers few children per caretaker low staff turnover. High quality daycare did not disrupt attachment to parents. Risk of insecure attachment if: child care is poor child spent many hours at poor day care parents insensitive to child at home. No signi cant differences through age 4. 5 (day care vs. raised by mother) More behaviour problems by age 4. 5 (this effect disappeared by grade 3) No signi cant differences through age 4. 5 (daycare vs raised mother) Among children in daycare: higher quality day care associated with better cognitive performance. After school care regardless of type of care, the most important thing is a secure attachment to parents. Divorce rate 40% by 30th anniversary (and many other separated) Over pattern of maladjustment in 10% of children from non-divorce families and 20-25% of divorced families. Studied why people make the moral judgements they do.