Sally Child Psychology

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There are various psychologist’s studies which describe the factors contributing to the development of the human beings. Sally was five years old girl, who suffered from some conflicts. As the result of the disturbance in her life, she was unable to communicate with other people. In the light of the reported event, this case will discuss the cause of Sally’s behavior from the different perspective. Psychoanalytic perspective Erickson’s states industry vs inferiority stage is from grade k to 6, which shows that “a sense of inferiority emerges when the child is unproductive or made of feel incompetent” (Santrock, 2017, p.51). Sally is revealing inappropriate behavior because of lack of self-assurance and poor self-esteem when faces her peers. …show more content…

In the case of Sally, she did not get proper guidance and assistance from her teachers. The improper support of teachers and school member made her become irritable. She found hard to communicate with others and emerges as unsuccessful to adapt to the environment of the school. Because of this, she did not like to interact with people. On the other side, according to Piaget’s cognitive theory sally is in preoperational stage of development (Santrock, 2017). She was not mentally able to perform the solutions to her problems and being afraid of sharing the situation with someone else. She started to develop her own ideas about the world she lives in, she was not good at thinking things out of her world and which caused her to behave differently among rest of the students. She might find difficulty to understand the concepts in the …show more content…

The cause of sally’s disproportionate behavior is due to her feeling of getting punishment which made her impotent to communicate with peers and teacher. She lacked motivation and encouragement. She was not getting appreciation from the teacher and friends for her work which creates her behavior to swing. Moreover, Bandura’s social cognitive theory add that there are three elements which play a vital role in children development: behavior, environment, and cognition. These three factors work interactively (Santrock, 2017). Sally might be paying attention to another person whose behavior is not good and influenced her. In addition, she may have such images in her mind which hinder her mood and mind. That’s the reason she did not feel comfortable to talk with other

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