The observation took place indoor at my relative 's house. I went to observe the child on Tuesday at 12:00 in the morning. When you first enter the house and walk through the hallway, you will see that the kitchen is on the right side and the dining table on the left. After passing the kitchen and dining table, you will see that the living room connects to the back-yard. The living room 's walls had multiple picture frames and decoration pieces hanging along with a brown color clock. Moreover, the living room had dark green sofa 's, television, a coffee table and variety of toys that include a white writing board, a box of legos, soft toys, barbie dolls, kitchen sets, play house, books, ball, building blocks and a blue color table along with …show more content…
Due to the fact that, when she was eating the rice sitting on the dining table, but she suddenly got up from the table, started walking towards the living room, grabed her barbie dolls and started feeding them. Moreover, not only she was pretending to drink from the toy cup while playing with the kitchen set, but, also was pretending to talk on the toy phone as she saw her mother talking to someone on her cell phone. These are the example of make-believe play because according to book “Make-believe play increases in sophistication during the preschool years. Children pretend with less realistic toys [such as] in early pretending, toddlers use … toy telephone to talk into or a cup to drink from. Their earliest pretend acts usually imitate adualt 's actions” (Berk, 227). The theory that perfectly relates to these examples is Piaget 's theory because Berk in the book infer that “Make-believe play is … excellent example of the development of representation in early childhood. Piaget believed that through pretending, young children practice and strengthen newly acquired representational schemes” (Berk, …show more content…
After she failed to put on her shoes, she ran toward her mother for help, but her mother showed how to wear a similar shoe in her own feet and then asked Khushi to try wearing the shoe again by herself. This is an example of Ericson 's theory because one of the stage of his theory of psychosocial development explains that in early childhood, parents allow their childrens to become independent and explore the limits of their abilities such as helping them put on their cloths and shoes by themselves (Berk, 256). Another example of emotional development that I noticed while observing was when Khushi 's mother turn on television and starts watching a serial. Due to the fact that, Khushi left all of her toys, walked towards the TV, and stood nearby as she saw a baby crying on the TV. This is an example of emotional development because according to the book “As with infants and toddlers, preschoolers who experience negative emotion intensely find it harder to shift attention away from disturbing events and inhabit their feelings” (Berk,
For less than two hours, I observed the grandson of a visitor at my aunt’s home.
In this stage they learn to place objects and events together (the semiotic function) and engage symbolic play (Piaget, 1964). At the beginning of this stage children’s thoughts tend to be self-centred or egocentric but as they pass through it their thoughts become more and more open-minded and they learn to see things from a different point of view, by the age of seven it was believed that the child was no longer egocentric. Evidence to support Piaget’s claim would be his three mountain task, where the child was presented with three different mountains. They were allowed to walk around and look at the different mountains from different angles they then had to sit at one side. A doll was then placed it very various positions of the table, they showed the child ten photographs of the mountains taken from different angles and were asked what the dolls view what’s. A child would be classified as egocentric if they picked the photograph that showed their own view of the mountains, and if they picked the doll’s view then they were seen as no linger egocentric and would be moving onto the next stage of development. An issue that could be raised is that this process was too complicated to the child. Hughes conducted a study of egocentrism in 1975, which was aimed to be simpler for the child to understand. The task was explained to the child and mistakes were pointed out initially. The
The facility I did my observation at was Tutor Time in Fairfield, and I arrived there at 3:15pm. When I arrived there, I could instantly see that it was a child centered program by the feel of the artwork the kids had made that were on the walls, the passing classrooms and it smelled like sugar cookies throughout the building. It was very quiet in the office area and in the halls when I was walking to the class of preschoolers.
Another rather consistent observation I saw was the indication that most children used their parent as a secure base. A secure base is provided through a relationship that harbors one or more responsive caregivers who meets the child’s needs and to whom the child can turn to as a safe haven, when upset or distraught. This relationship can be seen in many of the observations I made. The one that stands out the most and that clearly depicts how a child uses a secure base is Susy. Susy used her parents as secure base when she was frightened by the boy that was older than her and whom she didn’t know. She ran to her parents for protection and comfort from the stranger. Another clear depiction of a secure base was when Susy demonstrated separation
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I observed a child at the elementary school I was working at for SERVE while he was playing during lunch. I first walked around the playground during recess to get a feel for the school and the students on their breaks. As I sat down on a bench near the playground I noticed there was a lot of segregation between genders throughout the activities. For example, I saw that the girls were more likely to be found playing “house”, hopscotch or playing with other girls whereas the boys gravitated towards the more physical activities such as sports like football, kickball and basketball. Although there were expectations for both groups around the playground jungle gym area with monkey bars, slides and more, that had an equal balance of boys and girls. I chose to focus on a boy, around seven or eight years old, who was socializing with others and engaging in various activities.
“Experiences of young adults, having a parent with a mental illness” as the topic suggests deals majorly with the experiences that these adults had as children which in turn helped them pave their adult life.
The child I observed is Lucy, she is three years old, weighs about 30 lbs, and is 35.5 inches tall. Lucy is white, has blonde hair and blue eyes. In her usual household Lucy lives with her mother, father, older brother and older sister. Due to some flooding in the basement, the family had to temporarily move out of their home and into the father’s parents’ house. At the time of the observation the members in the house hold consisted of Lucy, her brother, sister, mother, father and paternal grandmother and grandfather.
This paper will explore my findings of my observation of a young boy, age 28 months, named Jax. Jax is fun little man and happens to be my nephew. I will discuss the attributes and characteristics of Jax that I witnessed in the few hours that I had observed him. Starting with motor development skills, I observed that Jax is a very favorable walker. He is well coordinated, and loves to run. Still, just like any two-year-old, he still stumbles frequently. He loves to play with his toys and can pick up and grasp his toys well. He is great at maneuvering his toys and putting them where he wants them. I did notice that he did favor his right hand regularly. Jax did love to throw things, and catch them as well. However, he seemed to be a bit better at catching things, more so than he was at throwing
It is characterized by the use of symbols to represents objects and relationships among them (Rathus , S., & Longmuir, S., 2011 , p.125). This is the time children pretend play , Piaget (1962 [ 1946 ])wrote that pretend play usually begins in the second year , when the child begins to symbolize the objects . The quality of pretend play influences pre-schoolers’ later academic performances , their creativity, and their social skills (Russ,2006; Stagnitti et al.,2000) . Imaginery friends are an example of pretend play . As many as 65% of pre-schoolers have imaginery friends , they are most common first born and only children (Gleason et al.,2003). Children with imaginery friends are usually less aggressive , more cooperative, and show greater language development and concentration (Rathus, S., & Longmuir, S., 2011 , p.126). In conclusion, we have learned that in the preoperational stage you learn to symbolize objects and you can connect to people relationship wise. – you’re missing several theoretical concepts for this stage;
Middle childhood is the time where children start to fully develop their skills. They develop their comprehension skills, communication skills, and many more. In order to get a better look into the life of children during this stage, I decided to observe my niece’s friend, Ryan, who is almost at the end of her middle childhood stage. Ryan is an eleven year old girl who attends Bassett Elementary. I choose to observe Ryan because, she is a very unique girl who does not always fit into what the average girl her age is like.
Developmental psychology is the scientific study of changes that occur in human throughout the life span. The development starts from infant until old age. Childhood is a time of tremendous change, but people also continue to grow slowly and develop during adulthood. It is a continuous process with a predictable sequence. These developmental changes may be influenced by genetic factor, environment factor and maturation factor. There are three types of human development changes: physical development, cognitive development and psychosocial development. Early childhood is the children that range at the aged 3 to 5 years. Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development is one of the best-known theories of personality in psychology. Erik Erikson
Imagine a young child, in a bright colored shirt, calmly sitting on a bench in a park; everyday the same child is at the park with a chocolate ice cream cone melting in the sun. Finally, on the seventh day of observing this child, something different occurs. He no longer sits patiently on the park bench waiting for his ice cream to melt; instead he runs from the “monsters” that hide in the trees that line the public park; as he shouts spells that ward off the chasing “creatures” he laughs loud enough for everyone to hear; furthermore, the chocolate that once covered his small hands now acts as a mask for his round smiling face. This idea of a person acting out their imagination and being completely spontaneous coincides with the beliefs of
I have been observed a class of 4-5-year old for the past 3 months and have seen them initialize many different curriculum styles to implement Physical Development into there every day curriculum. They are very fortunate in having an open well supplied outdoor play area with swings, climbing structure with all types of different areas and levels of development, open grass area for free play, an astonishing sandbox, and an amazing variety of ridable equipment. Each day the children are out exploring for at least 45 minutes, even in the rain and are practically knocking down the door when it is time to go. The class also has times were the indoor class room is used for physical development, with group time story telling and acting out the characters
Maturation is one of those stages that everyone has to go through, and during the adolescent years is when most of these changes begin to happen. People between the ages of 13 to 18 start to figure out who they really are and what they identify as, as well as what their personal beliefs and opinions about everything are. However, adolescents also make poor decisions once in a while, such as what time they go to bed every night.