Observing Biosocial Development in a Preschooler

Intoduction
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.

Physical Development/ Biosocial Development
Biosocial development is determined by both the biological influenced and the social influenced factors of a person’s development. Biosocial development relates to preschool

Lucy lacked prosocial behavior. She asked her mom to play music and when her mom said clean up first she groaned before cleaning up. The only reason she cleaned up her toys was so her mom would put music on. She only did it to benefit herself. If she was to clean up her toys, just to clean them up, not wanting anything in return, that would be an example of prosocial behavior. I am sure that she has some prosocial behavior, but I had not witnessed any. I think this example is typical for a three-year-old. They want to immediately jump into the next thing, not take time to clean up the mess they made from the toys they were previously using. I see it today in my classroom, the kids try and jump to the next thing before cleaning up the huge mess they made. They also complain, but they clean it up so they can move onto the next thing.
Parten came up with a theory that there are certain stages of play, solitary, onlooker, parallel, associative and

Lucy played calmly and quietly with her Barbie’s, which is typical for a girl. If a boy was playing with them, you should expect him to have them wrestle or hitting each other. Boys tend to do rough-and-tumble play where girls do not. Rough and tumble play is “play that mimics aggression through wrestling, chasing, or hitting, but in which there is no intent to harm.” (pg.320) Lucy also did active play, with dancing and tumbling around the living room. This is something typical for children of all ages, gender, cultures. “Children need physical activity to develop muscle strength and control.” (pg.320) This is normal for a child her age, gender and