Class/secti FHS 1500-004

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Your Aspen Rodriguez
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Assignmen Observation 1
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Background Information
Childs age: 14 months
Fictitious Timmy
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Location: Online videos
Brief This child plus other kids in the class and the adult filming
Description:

Biological Development

As far as Timmys biological development he seems to be about the same

size or bigger the most of his other fellow classmates. He clearly has all of his
major body parts, and can use them properly in areas such as running, talking, and
picking things up. Next to the other children you can tell that Timmy is not
extremely undersized or oversized and that theres no need to worry about his
growth or weight and there probably never will be a problem (Berger, 2016, p. 90).

Timmy seems to respond to pain when he falls. This sounds he makes and
the reaction he shows when he falls shows us that he feels pain and that his pain
receptors are working as they should. (Berger, 2016, p. 99-100). He also responds
to touch when he is playing. If he can feel that there is something in his hand
under his feet, then he will respond to it and show us that he knows that it is there.
Timmys sensory receptors seem to be at where they should be right now, because
he can feel pain and be able to tell where is coming from and probably even
explain to an adult how it happened. He is able to show where on his body the
feeling was coming from.

Timmy is developing coordination he needs to run and jump. It is not to the

level that it will fully be yet, But for the age that we assume he is he is right on
track (Berger, 2016, p. 101). When Timmy is running she stumbles and is very
unstable, but that is expected for child barely over one year. He also has a hard
time jumping off of a tree stump, because he cant fully understand how to lift both
of his feet off of the ground using his under developed coordination.
 Something else I noticed is that when Timmy is playing anything that he picks up
goes directly to his mouth. This is definitive of the oral stage in Freuds stages of
development.

Cognitive Development

He shows fine motor skills when he spins the wheels on the cars. This isnt
necessarily the pincer fine motor skill, but since he is using his fingers and not only
his hands it is a developmental step towards the pincer grasp (Berger, 2016, p.
101-102). She is noticing that the wheels move and the faster he moves his hand
then the faster the wheels will move. He has not yet figured out that when he puts
the car on the ground the wheels will do the same thing.
Gross motor development is shown when he plays with the sand. He lifts the
sand up in a shovel and watches it as he pours it off. Another one is when he is
standing on the tree stump and has not yet figured out how to jump off. He leans
forward over the edge of the stump and tries to jump, but can only get one foot in
the air at a time so hes stumbles off the stump. He has not yet developed the
cognitive synapses needed to figure out coordination needed to jump off (Berger,
2016, p. 101-102). Another reaction is when he watches people as they walk by
and just observes them. Timmy responds to the sounds of people talking and
notices when they walk by him. He is able to follow sounds and figure out where
they are coming from. He notices that he is not the only one there an watches And
observes adults and other kids while theyre playing. He is able to interact with
other adults and be aware of his surroundings to see where movement and sounds
are coming from all around him (Berger, 2016, p. 93-96).

Psychosocial Development

In the third video when Timmy is playing with the cars on the wooden Game
board he shows excitement when the car makes it to the bottom by slapping his
hands on his legs. I cant tell if they excited noises are coming from him or the
other children, but there are definitely emotional responses to the toys they are
playing with and what the end result of an action might be.

He shows no signs of separation anxiety because he has no problem with his

parents not being there, and he just plays by himself the entire time. If he was
showing any signs of stress from his parents being gone, then he would either pout
or constantly look out the window and not feel like playing at all. Timmy did not cry
or throw tantrum when he noticed that his parents were gone so he doesnt seem
to have any anxiety or attachment to them (Berger, 2016, p. 139-144).

Something Ive noticed when Timmy is playing, is that he doesnt like

to play with the other children. Timmy plays games on his own and hardly even
interacts with the other students. He likes to play his own games and doesnt
acknowledge when theres other children near him. He is nothing most social of
children, but he is not an outcast. Timmy doesnt have a problem with stealing
other kids toys or sharing his own he just likes to play alone and do his own thing.
When theyre sitting in circle time, but he does not interact with them in the way
most kids do. This could be early signs that Timmy has an introverted personality,
but it does not mean that theres anything wrong with him or wrong with that.

Reference List

Berger, K. S. (2016). Invitation to the life span (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Worth
Publishers.