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A 3 page paper that reports and analyzes an observation of a four-year-old boy. The observation considers Piaget’s cognitive development and physical coordination development. The behaviors of the boy are interpreted according to those theories. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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with Michael. Observation Report Michael was sitting on the floor in the family room playing with powers rangers. He is acting and talking like the power ranger. Michael got
up and ran, pretending he was flying. He sat back down on the floor and looked very closely at the power ranger. The rangers helmet had come off and Michel
tries to get it back on. He says to himself, "Oh no, how do I get the power ranger helmet back on". Michael had trouble getting the helmet back
on the little figure and became irritated with his lack of success. Frustrated, he threw the power ranger across the floor. He did not succeed with this task and stopped
trying. Skinner (2011) said that when a task results in punishment, the individual will stop doing that task. This was shown with Michael because when he failed at putting the
helmet on, he switched to coloring. Even with this short time of irritation and frustration, it is clear that the boy has a relatively happy and even temperament. This
is evidenced by him walking across the room, picking up the power ranger, and sitting back down on the floor. He then began coloring. Jean Piaget proposed a stage theory
of cognitive development. He identified four stages of growth that he believed were sequential and invariant. Michael fits into Piagets Preoperational stage, which covers ages 2-7 (Piaget and Inhelder, 2000).
This stage may be separated into two substages: 2-4 years and 5-7 years. This stage is about symbolic thinking when children begin to give labels to things in their lives.
They also develop schemes that they use to recognize new objects. A simple example is that dogs and cats have different features (Compeau, 2001). Language skills develop quickly during this
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