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7.2- Exosystem
According to my uncle, my mom was constantly being forced by her family to get married young and have children because she was getting too old. My uncle told me that my mom said that when she has a daughter she will make sure that she will never force her daughter into marriage and she would let her daughter marry whoever she wanted. My mom wasn't alive long enough for me to experience this, but this would have been part of my exosystem. -
1.1 Birth 2:59 pm
I was born on February 4th, 1989 at 2:59 pm at Rush North Shore Hospital in Skokie, Illinois. I was 6 lbs and 9oz and I was 19" long. -
6.1-Basic Emotions
After looking through my baby book, I saw that my first series of smiles (basic emotion) was on this date.Yes, this basic emotion served as an adaptive function. When I smiled my mother understood that I was happy and liked whatever was going on and she would therefore do things to make me smile. I could have been smiling because I heard a familiar voice/sound, had sweet taste or smelled tasty food and my smile helped me get more of the things I liked. -
2.1 Passive Gene Environment Correlation
My mom and dad are very social and family oriented people and due to this fact, I grew up in a household where we always had family around. Growing up around family and having frequent family gatherings was the perfect environment for me to grow up in since genetically I am also a very social and family oriented person. -
4.2-First Word
My first word was mama (which I said in Greek) to my mom at the age of four months. My first word was simply due to phonology. I was able to finally repeat the phonetics of the work because I am sure that my mom had probably repeated the word to me multiple times in my first 4 months. -
3.1 Preoperational Magnetism
If someone were to teach me or if I wre to teach a 3 year old about magnetism during this stage of preoperational magnetism I would have some difficulty achieving this. A child at this age may not quit understand the concept of why the magnet sticks together since they can only think in one dimension (centration). -
5.1- Kohlberg's & Gender
After having seen the video and based on Kohlberg's theory I believe that Parker is about 2 1/2 or 3 years old. Parker seems to understand a majority of the gender of the names that you asked her, but she did have some confusion on the gender of the not very contemporary names (and she said she was a boy). -
6.2-Self Control
I was actually told this story that on my 3rd birthday my mom had made her amazing chocolate chip cookies and she told me that I could have as many as I wanted, but I had to wait until the guests arrived. Of course being 3 and having little self control I chose to eat a cookie because I didn't have a good concept of delay of gratification. I wanted a cookie and I wanted it at that moment. -
7.1- Parental Strategies
When I was 3 years old we sat down to have dinner together as a family and I started crying. My mom interpreted the attribute of my behavior as me having hurt myself. After trying to comfort me and find where I had hurt myself I told her that I wasn't hungry and I didn't want to eat. If my mom had know that from the beginning she would have adjusted her parenting strategy. -
4.1 Memory
The earliest memory I have is when I was 3 years old. My little brother and I were arguing about something and he cornered me (in the small space shown in the picture) and he proceeded to dig his nails into my face. I believe the theory that fits my experience is that in order for me to talk about past events I must have an understanding myself as a psychological entity. -
2.3 Evocative Gene Environment Correlation
As a child I liked to dance to all the different types of music that my mom played. Once my mom noticed my passion for dancing, she signed me up to take ballet classes. -
1.2 Theories
I believe that the abuse that I encountered as a child has shaped me into the person that I am today. I believe that Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model is the best model to describe what I encountered during my childhood. Bronfenbrenner believes that a child's development is dependent on more factors than simply by the people that are immediately around them but by other more external factors (in my case teachers that reported my stepmom and the authorities that handled our case). -
5.2 Encouraging Gender Schemas
In my pre-school class there were various toys that were geared towards the different genders of myself and my classmates. The boys had toy cars and trucks to play with and the girls were given dolls. I remember one time when I was upset about something that one of my classmates had done to me and my teacher brought me my favorite doll to comfort me. -
8.1- Children and Television
My favorite show to watch when I was about 7 years was Barney. I used to be able to understand the implicit content communicated in Barney (content communicatd by relationships among scenes) and I was sometimes able to understand the explicit (the discrete scences essential to understanding the plot). I remember a particular Barney show that had various of Barney's friends singing the happy birthday song in various languages and at first I didn't listen but then I was able to memorize the song. -
3.2 Concrete Magnetism
If I were to teach a 8 year old about concrete magnetism I would be able to show the child how the magnet works and he or she will be able to understand the concept since magnets are "real objects" that exist in the real world. -
3.3 Imaginary Audience
When I was about 8 years old my dad took me to get my hair cut and the hair stylist cut my hair a bit shorter than I liked. I was very upset and I would refuse to go outside because I thought that everyone would think my hair was too short and that I looked bad. -
6.3 Forclosure
When I was 9 years old I thought I wanted to be a singer. I had committed to the idea, but I hadn't explored options of other careers because I was stuck on the fame and fortune that singers have. -
1.3 Methods
Around this time in my life, a social worker was questioning me as to the causes of my bruises. Since I was young and afraid of adults, the social worker had me in a room that was full of toys and then she had me sit in a comfortable child sized chair and she the proceeded to sit in a similar sized chair so that she was at the same level as me to not seem intimidating. The social worker proceeded to ask me questions in language appropriate to my age as to who was the one who was hurting me. -
3.3 Personal Fable
I remember that when I was around the age of 10 I really wanted to go to my friend's birthday sleepover. For some particular reason (which I no longer remember) my father didn't let me go. I was so upset and I told him he didn't understand me at all and he didn't really understand how much I really wanted to do this. -
8.2- School Transitions
Transition into middle school was a very difficult time in my life. This when I was going through various changes not only physically but mentally as well.I was a bit depressed and I was finally beginning to realize who I was and what was ok and what wasn't ok. In 8th grade I finally got the courage to contact my uncle and inform him of the abuse that I had been encountering after realizing that this wasn't the right environment for me. I don't really disagree with the statements in the book. -
7.4- Friendship
Review the content from the text on children's friendships. When I was in middle school I had a best friend named Nicole. Her and I were very close and did almost everything together. Nicole and I dressed similairly and acted similarly. Initially Nicole and I became friends because we sat next to each other in class and we both liked the color pink. Nicole and I began to reinforce each other's behaviors and we were each other's models for things we liked and wanted. -
6.4 Achieved
When I was 14 years old, I was repeatedly told by members of my family and a family attorney that I would make a good attorney when I grew up. After having previously explored many career options, I finally decided at age 14, to committ to being an attorney at my career. -
7.3- Crowds and Cliques
When I was a freshmen in high school I was part of the not in the not so popular crowd. At the high school that I attended we didn't really have group classifications, but if I had to characterize the people I hungout with as the smart kids. My clique consisted mostly of my boyfriend and his friends and the three girls in the picture. -
2.2 Active Gene Environment Correlation
I noticed around the time that I was going into high school that I am very good at cooking and baking. Upon noticing this fact I took a couple cooking and baking classes over the summer to improve my skills and to learn more about something that I am very good at. -
2.4 APGAR
Using the APGAR scale Nicolai's health was very good in that it was a 2 in ever category. The nurses first checked Nicolai's heart rate and seeing as it was good it was a 2 on the APGAR scale. His color was very pink so that would be a 2 also.The nurses pulled on his limbs to check his muscle tone which was a 2. His reflex responsivity is a 2 at times because he periodically had a vigorous cry and at other times a simple grimace (1). Respiratory effort was a 2 as well since he had a good cry.
