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This 5 page paper provides an overview of one child and his experience with certain toys. This paper integrates an observation with the developmental views of theorists like Piaget and Bandura. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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play with a cup and saucer, a brush and comb and a tractor and trailer give some insight into how play is fundamental to the cognition and psychosocial development. The
video taped observation shows Matthew playing with a cup and saucer that are placed on a small table. It is evident that Matthew has had experience with these objects
before and he mimics their functional use repeatedly, picking up the cup, for example, and pretending to drink from it. After each drink, Matthew makes the sound "ahhh," showing
that he is satisfied after drinking the imagined tea. Matthew also picks up the saucer and pretends to drink the tea from the saucer, and also finds a spoon
on the table and takes this and stirs the cup. In each of these different parts of his play behavior, there are recognizable elements that relate to his conditioning, to
a social perspective that relates directly to the objects. This is linked to basic views on early cognitive development. Bandura (1977) argued that cognitive and information-processing capacities that
mediate intellectual development and social behavior are inherently linked to learned and imitated processes. Piaget (1954), in contrast, proposed two processes linked to these schemas, assimilation and accommodation, assimilation
being a process of experiential influence that can be compared to Banduras initial perceptions of social learning, and accommodation existing as the process of reapplying assimilated knowledge and schemas to
different elements, objects or interactions. Matthews mother then puts a brush and comb in front of Matthew, and there is also a female doll with long hair on the table.
Matthew picks up the doll and brushes the dolls hair, and then quickly says "no," pushing the doll away. He then takes the brush and brushes his own
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