Prenatal Environment

Question One
Prenatal Environment Kimberly’s son, Jack, is a three-year-old currently attending a daycare. Jack’s daycare teachers reported that he is academically on track, capable of recalling and categorizing. Jack’s speech is clear, but only speaks in short sentences. Although these are positive aspects, it has been reported by the staff that Jack is nervous, passive, and shy around other children. Furthermore, when Jack is upset the staff gives him toy cars, given by his father, to regulate his emotions and reengage him with children and staff. A possible key factor to Jack’s development so far, and future development, is prenatal environment. A mother’s diet, mother’s age, mother’s prenatal support, mother’s health, mother’s drug use, and a father’s effect on the prenatal environment are all factors that affect an unborn child. In the case study, it was described that during the pregnancy Kimberly and Brandon smoked tobacco. Smoking has several consequences such as reducing oxygen available to the fetus, nicotine and other toxins

Piaget’s work has been described as epistemology which is concerned with logical thinking. In Piaget’s theory he was concerned with children, focused on development, and proposes distinct stages of development which are noticeable by qualitative differences. Furthermore, he defined assimilation and accommodation which are two ways people could process information. Ages two to seven are identified as the preoperational stage. In the preoperational stage there is symbolic function, centration, conservation, and egocentric. In this stage children engage in pretend play and use more language but Jack has isolated himself and only uses short sentences. Children learn their world by acting on objects within their environment. Jack is missing out on valuable learning time when isolated from children, staff, and his