In choosing participants to interview for this project, I decided to seek individuals who I have already bonded with, so that the participants would be comfortable answering my interview questions and also provide feedback with less hesitation. Therefore, I chose to select my five year old sister Grace, my eight year old brother Aiden, and my eighteen year old boyfriend Dean. Aiden and Grace are both Caucasian children who live in a middle class household with their mom, dad, and dog Piper. With my dad and step-mom’s permission, I interviewed both Aiden and Grace separately over Skype. I interviewed Aiden with both my dad and step-mom present while Grace was in another room and used the same format when interviewing Grace. However, Dean is …show more content…
So, as expected of a typical five year old, she could not sit in the same position to focus on answering the questions. When asked what her favorite activities were, her immediate response thought was that she loved to play outside. I then asked if there were any other activities that she liked to do she told me that she enjoyed games too. However Grace’s mother, who was present in the room for the duration of the interview, stated, “You do more than that, Grace. You like to read, do puzzles, play with dolls…” which Grace agreed with and repeated as her own answer (Grace’s mother, personal communication, 2016). Grace also told me “I’ll do anything that Aiden does,” referring to her older brother (Grace, personal communication, 2016). When asked to list some things she can do by herself, her first response was to tell me that she could do back flips in the pool and tie her own shoes. It seemed that she was responding to the question and bragging about all of her favorite abilities. Her mother again interjected and told me that she could also read some, help take care of her dog, brush her own teeth, and write her own name, which Grace again repeated as her mother listed her abilities. It’s clear that Grace’s interests are greatly influenced by imitation. This observation supports Bandura’s Social Learning Theory which states that “behavior is learned through observation.” (Feldman). Grace looks at her older family members’ physical interests and mimics what they encourage, which is normal for being in this age group and also being the youngest child. Her physical abilities are also in the range of what is expected at her
Toddlers are the epitome of curiosity and energy. From ages 1 – 3, toddlers are always on the go and want to learn about everything in their world. As with infants, no two are alike; each toddler is unique in his or her developmental stages, and each accomplishes milestones at different times. “Although children develop at different rates, there are common stages of development that serve as guidelines for what most children can do by a certain age” (Groark, McCarthy & Kirk, 2014). As seen in the hatfieldmomof3 (2011) video, one observes toddlers at play and can determine the age of the toddlers by their actions and the milestones they have accomplished.
Grace’s many siblings and weak-willed mother caused the need for her to develop strong independence in order for her survival. She is born in a poor family of many siblings with a submissive mother and an abusive father. Grace is the oldest among her many siblings, that remain in the house and within contact, which resulted in her having many responsibilities. Dr. Jordan would often hold conversation sessions with Grace in order to find out her connection to the murder of her employer and the head servant of the house. Their talks mainly consist of Grace retelling her life. During one of Grace’s flash backs, she remembers: “This was when our father began to tell me that I was almost a grown woman […], it was time I went out into the world to earn my own bread, […]”(Atwood 146). At...
Social domain helps interact with other classmates. There are many activities that promote the social skills. According to Berger (2015), Social learning theory is the behaviorism that emphasizes the influence that other people have over a person’s behavior. The individuals learn without an enforcement. The individual learns through observation and imitation of other people. This theory is also called observational learning. Children model their behavior from their parents, peers, and famous people. Social learning occurs through modeling in which the child copies what they see on other people they admire. However, there are some children that do the opposite of what a role model is doing. On April 19, 2016, I noticed that Charlotte played with a baby doll. Charlotte was experience social learning Charlotte covers the baby doll with a blanket and surprisingly removes the blanket from the baby doll. When Charlotte took out the blanket, she laughs at the baby doll. It seems like Charlotte was playing peek-a-boo with her doll. By Charlotte plays with her doll, it shows that she learned that activity with her mom/dad. Also, there was an infant called Loui and was playing with Charlotte. Loui laid down on the carpet and moving his hips side to side. When Charlotte saw Loui, she laid down on the carpet and started to do the same thing. They were playing this new game and they were interacting with one
Bandura’s social cognitive theory, relates to the way Student A acts. Bandura’s theory focuses on observational learning like imitating and modeling, which Student A does through out the days I have observed. When the teacher teaches her how to say a word, student A imitates the lip movement and sounds the teacher makes. “People acquire a wide range of behaviors, thought, and feelings through observing others’ behaviors and that these observations form an important part of children’s development” (Santrock, 2010, p. 31). As I observed Student A, I saw how she always focused on what the teacher was doing, she would do exactly what the teacher was doing, on my fourth observation, when they were doing math, student A was doing exactly
The daycare that I visited was Rosemont Daycare and Preschool. This center is faith based and I was able observe the “Duck Class” which was the age group of four and five year olds. I went to observe on February 11th and 16th, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 and the 18th from 3:00 to 6:00. On the 11th and 16th, there were a total of 12 children in the Duck class. At 9:00 the children were engaged in circle time meaning that the children were learning about their bible verse for that month which was “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.” The children then discussed what they thought that meant. On the 11th I was present to see the children, the ones I decided to observe were Kali, Roslyn, Fiona, and Brayden. When the children were doing crafts I sat near the counter island in the class room so I was out of the way but still able to see and hear what the kids were doing and saying at the table.
In the first interview, Lorena seemed suspicious and guarded, and I had to be cautious building a relationship with her. It was important to be congruent and show genuine interest by listening to her. Geldard & Geldard (2002) stated “children are very good at recognizing people who are not congruent”, (p, 38).
In one’s childhood it is apparent that the immediate family members have a significant impact on the way a child grows up. The environment a child is raised in can and will affect him or her in many ways. Developing siblings learn from one another through everyday play and family activities. The interactions within a family provide many opportunities to acquire social, emotional, and behavioral skills (Conger, Stocker, McGuire, 2009).
Lastly, I will discuss my observations from the parent and child interactions. The interview and observation took place at a local park, where my niece and the oldest daughter attend cheerleading practices. The interview lasted a duration of one hour, including the observation of the child and parent after the interview. The participant that I shall call Emily (the mom) is Caucasian and is age 35. Emily's daughter Anna is age six.
In his famous Bobo doll experiment, children observed the people around them behaving in various ways. The children observed an adult acting aggressively toward the Bobo doll. When they had a chance to play, they began to imitate the violent acts they had previously observed. Bandura determined three (3) basic models of observational learning: live model, verbal instructional model and symbolic model. Live model involves an individual demonstrating or showing a behavior. Verbal instructional model includes descriptions and explanations of a behavior. Finally, symbolic model involves real or fictional characters displaying behaviors in television programs, books, video games and other types of media. Bandura noted that reinforcement can also influence learning and behavior, be it external or internal and positive or negative. He described intrinsic reinforcement as a form of internal reward, such as satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment from praises or approval (Cherry, 2016). Children can also learn new information without demonstrating new behaviors. They do not automatically observe and imitate the behavior of a model. The child also take into consideration of what happens to other people before deciding to whether mimic someone’s behavior or not. This is known as vicarious reinforcement. Bandura proposed four (4) steps that are involved in the observational learning and modeling or mediational process: attention, retention, reproduction and motivation. Children will emulate a behavior if it grabs their attention. In order to learn, a child must be paying attention. Therefore, attention is important to know if a behavior has an influence to others copying it. Retention is how good the behavior was remembered. The ability to store information is also a significant part in the learning process. Yet, the
I gave birth to a healthy, beautiful baby girl named Luna. Jeffrey has taken quite a liking to being a big brother. He likes to hold and rocker her and helps with feeding her. Jeffrey is still a slow-to warm child. He can communicate fairly well and is now using mostly complete sentences and seems to understand most of what I say. He occasionally makes errors of overregularization. He has taken an interest in music and singsongs even though he usually repeats a certain part a lot. I encourage this by taking him to local performances of children’s musicals. Jeffrey has learned the routines pretty well and is reasonably cooperative for his age. He is rarely aggressive to adults or other children. Jeffrey’s fantasy play has become more elaborate and sometimes includes superheroes or cartoon
“I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was supposed to revolve around child bearing- Just as my mom’s had before me, and her moms had before her.” From the time when we are born we start playing with toys, Our parents take us to the store and it's like a whole new magical world. What we don't realize though is how much those toys being separated by gender can affect us and society.
Bandura discusses the importance of observational learning. Bandura focuses mostly on how kids develop their habits based of their role models. Bandura shows this in the Bobo Doll Experiment. The Bobo Doll experiment consisted of 36 boys and 36 girls. They were then separated again into watching a video of a plastic doll called Bobo. Some children were separated by some adults aggressively beating up Bobo and the other half were calm adults. After they were showed the video, the kids were then shown to Bobo and the results matched the Social Learning Theory to the max. The kids that were show the aggressive videos were aggressive towards Bobo. Another Social Learning Theory can be told in my shoes because I have done something similar. I remember in fifth grade my older cousin would always ride his bike down the biggest hill without a helmet. I figured if he did and was okay, why can’t I? I learned the hard way and sliced my arm on a rock. Luckily I did not need stitches however, I did go to the doctors and got ointment for it. I still have the scar today. I feel like the Social Learning Theory has made an impact on my life because I have had the opportunity of having a role model. This role model has made a positive change to my life. Similar to Bobo, I have seen what negative role models have done for a person and how much it affects
As Grace grew older, she developed many skills from being in the wild. She learned how to locate different types of food, such as berries and small animals. She also learned how to be more aware of her surroundings, which
Vicarious learning, also known as observational learning, is a type of learning that includes observation, retaining information, and replicating the behavior from others. This type of learning can take place at any stage in life, however it is very important during childhood as authority plays a bigger part in children’s lives. Albert Bandura came up with the process of social learning called modeling and he gave four conditions needed for a person to suc...
Childhood is the time in our lives when we are carefree and have the rest of our lives in front of us. It's the time when we learn most of life's lessons and our minds develop free of judgement, sponging up any and every experience as a dry canvas soaks up paint. The child in whom I chose to observe is a girl who is around the age of 6 and is just now really starting to discover the joys of life. Watching this innocent, bubbly, happy girl actually took me back to a time in my life I haven't reflected on in many years. It reminded me how amazing it was to have the rest of my life in front of me and how almost all experiences were brand new.