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Object Permancence
At age 4 months, Carlie was demonstrating object permanence by playing the "peek-a-boo" game with him. He was unaware that when I was behind my hands, that I was actually stilll there. He would get excited and laugh everytime I reappeared. Object permanence is when awareness that objects continue to exist even when we are not in direct sensroy or motor contact with them (pg 149). This occurs in infants 4-8 months of age. -
Babbling
At 6 months of age Charlie was babbling alot. Babbling is the repetaitive prelanguate consonant-vowel combinations such as "ba-ba-ba" or "ga-ga-ga" (pg 157). This babble is common and occurs at around 6 months of age. Babbling is thought to be universal among infants. -
Stranger Anxiety
When Charlie was 13 months old he showed stranger anxiety. This is when a fear in response to an unfamiliar person is shown in the child (pg 208 ch. 5). It is quite common and usually is acquired by 6 months of age. The child may frown, cry, or run away when presented with an unknown person. -
Deferred Imitation
When Charlie was 18months old he was very often showing deferred imitation: the ability to repeat actions observed at an earlier time (pg 188). He would often do this while playing with his plastic tool set. He would see his father in the garage working and then go inside and start playing with his tools as well. -
Defined Handedness
When Charlie was 3 years old he showed to be right handed. Handedness is the preferene for using either the right or left hand in gross and fine motor activities (pg. 237). 90% of children are right handed and in some cultures left-handedness is "evil and dangerous." Handedness usually shows up in early childhood from 3-6 yrs old when they are beginning to draw or write. -
Phonics approach
When Charlie was 5 years old I was really trying the phonics approach with him. Phonics is the method of teaching reading that advocates breaking down words in their component sounds, called phonics, then putting the phonics together into words (pg. 304). This is one of the major educational approaches for learning to read for young children in middle childhood. -
Bullying
At 9 years of age Charlie experieced a bully at school. This was interesting to me because he was always such a social child. Bullying is the pattern of maltreatment of peers, including agrgression; pepetition; and power imbalance (pg 322). This eventually faded out and I talked with the parents of the other child. Boys are most commonly involved in bullyging, but girls can be as well. -
Autonomy
Autonomy is a big step in a childs adolescent life. This is the quility of being independent and self-sufficient, capable of thinking for ones self (pg. 372). When Charlie was 13 years old he started to show qualities of independance and wanting to do things more on his own. -
Clique
At the end of Charlies 8th grade year when he was 14 he had a solid 'clique' of friends. A cliquie is a small group of friends who know each other well, do things together, and form a regular social group (pg. 376). I was curious to see if he would end up staying friends with all of these children when he moved into highschool. -
personal fable
Once Charlie reached adolescence he demonstrated the typical "teenage behavior." Alot of the time he demonstrated personal fable, the belief in ones personal uniqueness, often including a sense of invulnerability to the consequences of taking risks (pg. 359). This is a demonstration of adolescent egocentrism developed by Piaget and Elkind.