Child Observation
My observation of a child was done with a thirteen-month-old boy by the name of Tommy. My observation was done at Tommy's house. The house was very well kept, small and colorful. Tommy's mother kept all of his toys in the corner of the large family room. Tommy had many toys, from a pretend kitchen set, cars, balls, to stuffed animals, and pillows. The family room was painted a light blue color, sponge painted white over top. The couches and chairs were denim material and dark blue. The day that I did my observation happened to be the day of his grandmother's birthday; therefore there were a number of people there. Along with Tommy and myself were Tommy's mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, one aunt and one uncle. There were no other children. 10:34 With both hands Tommy picks up his cup, slowly tipping it back, he pours the contents into his mouth, looking inside the cup while drinking. 10:34 Tommy looks over at his father and says "Da-da-da!" Doing so with a smile on his face. 10:35 When Tommy goes to set his cup on the tray he hits it with his left arm and knocks it over. 10:36 Tommy's grandmother in a high pitched voice asks, "What d
The second area of development is cognitive development. Cognitive development is how infants process or manipulate perceptual information and gradually construct systems of knowledge (pg. 188). Tommy was able to form concepts about certain objects. He knew that his cup was meant to drink out of and he also recognized the object form of his toy car. Tommy knew that it was his car and that it was a toy to play with. These are things that are developed during the three to four moth age time frame. 11:09 I lean over and ask Tommy if I can see his car. He states, "ba-sa-sa" and picks up his car with both hands and extends his arms straight out and the angels them up to me, handing me his car. 10:50 Tommy continues to push his car around. Occasionally pushing it into people's feet, who are sitting around the room. When the car hits them, Tommy looks at them with his eyes and mouth wide open, and stares. Then takes off! id you do?" Tommy responds with wide-eyed with "Ya-da-dooo." Tommy demonstrated a social smile, which is also a form of social interacting, and feelings of emotion. A social smile is a smile given in response to something outside the baby (pg. 241), such as another person's smile. When I smiled at Tommy he would smile back at me, this is his was of interacting with me, and being happy. I noticed Tommy doing this often, with other people that were in the room.
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