Preschool Observation Child Development 103 Instructor: S. Gethers Name: Don Carrington Child Center Address: 4339 W. 129th Hawthorne‚ CA 90250 Date of Visit: 13 June‚ 2014 Time: 9:15 A.M -12:30 P.M Director’s Name: Cheraki Davis Teacher: Cristian Teacher Assistants: Veronica and Chazmine Number of Children: 21 Ages: 3 - 5 years old Language Skills: Language skills refer to the child’s ability to speak and to communicate so that he/she can understand and be understood by others. It
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based‚ in which we are influenced by the surroundings and people around us. The controversy that exist between nature versus nurture is “about whether development is primarily influenced by what comes naturally or by our surrounding‚” according to Santrock (2012). This‚ in turn‚ begs the question: How does nature and nurture play a role in parenting styles? First what are some different styles of parenting? According to Diana Baumrind there are four different styles of parenting; authoritarian‚
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invading one in every two marriages in this country (Patz 59). In fact the United States has the highest percentile of single parent families‚ compared to all other countries (Santrock 167). And by age 18‚ approximately one fourth of all American children will have lived part of their lives in a step-family unit (Santrock 167). I knew that adolescents of divorced families were put at a greater individual risk and vulnerability to adjustment problems later in life‚ however I was not aware of the particular
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was adolescents. He came up with the concept that during this period the egocentric stage reappears. The main aspect of this stage is more of a social and cognitive emphasize as well as a personal fable and the creation of an imaginaive audience (Santrock 2007). During this stage the adolescent tends to create a belief that they are on stage and the world is an audience they feel as if they are constantly being watched and the people surrounding them are interested solely on them this is also why
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me/parenting/5252-how-relationships-affect-child-development/ on April 3‚ 2014. Nuttall‚ E. (n.d.). Cognitive development in early childhood education. Retrieved from http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/cognitive-development-early-childhood-education-15503.html on April 5‚ 2014. Santrock‚ J.W (2010). A topical approach to life-span development. Boston: McCraw-Hill Higher Education. UNICEF. (2011). Early childhood development: a key to a full and productive life. Retrieved from http://www.unicef.org/dprk/ecd.pdf on April 1‚ 2014.
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Functions of Friendship “Friends are a subset of peers who engage in mutual companionship‚ support‚ and intimacy‚” according to John W. Santrock in the book Adolescence. This implies that there are certain characteristics that are involved. Gottman and Parker organized these characteristics into six main categories‚ which serve as the functions of friendship. They include: Companionship‚ stimulation‚ physical support‚ ego support‚ social comparison‚ and intimacy/affection. Harry Sullivan is
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John W. Santrock Case Studies in Educational Psychology Chapter 1: • Case 1: Anita Underwood: Anita‚ an experienced and enthusiastic third-grade teacher‚ describes in detail her class plans and activities for the first day of the new school year and shares her sense of excitement and her fears. (Third grade—Topic: Classroom Climate‚ Early Childhood‚ Evaluation‚ Teaching Approach) • Case 2: Christie Raymond: Chrisie is a mature woman in the first month of her first fulltime position teaching music
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determine an individual ’s personality‚ attitudes‚ and behavior. The other side of the debate among experts is that nurture or experiences and environment have the most influence on development. Santrock states‚ "nature refers to an organism ’s biological inheritance‚ nurture to its environmental experiences" (Santrock‚ 2007‚ p. 17). This paper will take the debate a little further by examining whether nature or nurture has more of an influence on children raised
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Psychoanalytic Sigmund Freud developed his psychoanalytic theory while working with patients suffering with mental health illnesses (Santrock‚ 2007‚ p.39). According to Freud the mind can be divided up into two main parts which are the conscious and the unconscious. The conscious mind includes everything that we are aware of and our unconscious mind consists of feelings‚ thoughts‚ urges and memories that are harder to retrieve (IBID). Freud also believed that personalities have three structures
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childhood sets the course for later stages of development. It has been noted that a mother’s actions during pregnancy may influence the development of an infant. The developmental influences include prenatal‚ perinatal and neonatal environments. (Santrock‚ 2002) Although babies come into the world with no say or control over which family they will be placed into‚ or the environment in which they will begin to live in‚ theorists agree that the first two years are crucial‚ with early emotional‚ physical
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