Observation Paper Working within our human behavior and social environment class this year‚ I expected to learn a lot about the behavior of many adults and a lot about the social environment around us. I was surprised to know that we would learn about the process that adolescents take to begin to understand the world. Learning and observing the process involves taking a look the different stages in the development milestone. On December 6‚ 2013 from 12:30 to 2:30‚ I visited the child development
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Running Observation (Day one) Time Observation Comments 4:06 p.m. Plays with toy and stares a TV‚ but pays more attention toward TV. He seem more attended to the TV‚ because his facial expression seems calm. 4:14 p.m. Lays by the couch on floor and quietly watches the movie. His form of his body looks relaxed and calm because he lies with one hand above his head. 4:24 p.m. Child lies on couch with father and holds a laundry basket in his hand by the rim‚ and side talks to father. It
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Children should play with toy guns because this practice can teach gun safety‚ encourage imagination‚ and reduce the fascination and allure of real guns. Parents are becoming increasingly more hesitant to allow their children to play with toy guns. Many parents believe that letting a child play with toy weapons will lead to that child being prone to violence. Contrarily‚ studies have been unable to identify a link between toy gun toting children and violent crimes. This argument is unfounded‚ but
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major child development during the first two years of life. During this time the child experiences gross-motor development. The skills obtained from these developments are the ability to run‚ jump‚ catch etc. During the observation of the infant I was able to witness some of these developments. For example over the course of my observation I noticed the infant had significantly improved his ability to stand up and sit down on his own. He was struggling when the observation but seemingly got more comfortable
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Describe the importance of play and leisure for children and young people. Wales is the only country in the world to have a policy about play‚ part of it says; “play is the elemental learning process by which humankind has developed. Children exhibit a behavioural imperative and instinctive desire to play. It has contributed significantly to the evolutionary and developmental survival of our species. Children use play in the natural environment to learn of the world they inhabit with others. It
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fine motor skills; creative and constructive play are both particularly beneficial in this area‚ also play helps children to refine their motor skills when making toy figurines stand up etc. Play benefits children’s intellectual development as it helps then begin to understand important mathematical concepts such as number‚ matching‚ ordering‚ sorting‚ making and recognising pattern‚ adding and subtracting‚ and measuring. Role play helps children to explore aspects of their real life e.g a
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A issue that is highly debated is that; should kids play sports? Some say they should and encourage it‚ other don’t approve of it and think it’s not the best idea. But overall‚ Children shouldn’t play sports because many kids get serious injuries‚ parents spend a lot of money on the activities‚ and the time that they spend on sports takes away from other important timer activities. One reason that a child should not play a sport is because many of them get hurt. FOr example‚ statistics show that
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10pm Number of Children Present: 4 Number of Adults Present: 2(including myself) Ages of children observed: 2:6 years 2:8 years 3 years 6.5 years Aim & Rationale of observation: My aim while carrying out this observation was to observe a group of children‚ specifically the 2nd youngest child‚ aged 2yrs 8 months and his cognitive response to an activity involving numeracy. The type of cognitive skill I was looking for is what cognitive developmental stage children need to be at
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Child Observation Observation Assignment Description of children: All the children at Gerber Preschool are between the ages of 3 and 4 years old and mainly consist of lower to lower middle class Hispanic and Caucasian families. Mya is a small statured 3 year old Hispanic Caucasian female‚ with light olive-toned skin‚ long brown hair‚ and large brown eyes. Toby is an average statured 4 year old Caucasian male‚ fair-skinned‚ blue-eyed‚ short brown hair. Toby and Mya both seem to be in good
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which our society disciples its children varies greatly among individuals. The differences may be due to the personality differences among children‚ the manner in which the parents were disciplined as children‚ the parents’ mental or emotional state‚ or the social expectations that are put on the parents. In order to better understand the way in which parents discipline their children I went to several locations and observed parents interacting with their children. I want to discuss the types of
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