Plan a visit with a child you know, or spend some time in a park or on a playground, watching children interact.
Observations of Behavior Journal Entry
1. Plan a visit with a child you know, or spend some time in a park or on a playground, watching children interact. You can also locate home videos posted on YouTube or other video sharing sites.
2. In your journal using full sentences and paragraphs, give examples of how the children you observed demonstrated each the following (please comment on each behavior below):
Sensorimotor behavior: object permanence testing or purposeful action
Preoperational behavior: egocentrism, animism, artificialism, or objective responsibility
Concrete operational behavior: decentration or subjective moral judgments
3. In the next part of the journal, think back to when you were a preteen. List examples of you or your friends’ behavior that was consistent with the following developmental theories (please comment on each theory below):
deductive reasoning
imaginary audience
personal fable
post-conventional moral reasoning
ego identity and/or role diffusion
4. Submit your journal entry to your instructor for a grade.
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