SOC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: 18 Months
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Certainly, isabelle suffered the effects of a poor diet when she was found to have a severe case of rickets. But other research suggests that taking good care of an infant"s physical needs is not enough to produce a healthy child. Psychologist ren spitz (1945) compared the progress of infants in two different settings. The first was a nursery that had been established for babies born to women in a prison; the second was a foundling home (orphanage). The children in both settings were clean, well fed, and attended to by health-care professionals. The only real difference between the two environments was the amount of social interaction experienced by the children. In the prison nursery the infants were cared for mostly by their own mothers. In the foundling home six nurses cared for about forty-five infants. The outcome was that the children in the foundling home did not do nearly as well.
