Claudia Govea

November 5, 2017

ECE 252/SEC. 1001

Cognitive Observation

Cognitive Observation

I. PART A

A. A 12 month child begins to throw and shake objects begins to bang things

together.

B. The child seems to present sensorimotor in the substage of 4 Coordinating

Secondary Circular Reactions.

C. The toys or materials that will help a child to move on to the next stage will be a

ball or nesting cups. A ball will help the child learn the concept of repetition. The

child will bounce the ball and want to repeat the concept to see what will occur

with the ball. Nesting cups will the child because they will want to stack them

back up the way they were.

D. The teacher guides the child while he is interacting with the child. For the ball

drop the teacher suggests the child to drop the ball from different heights which

helps the child understand the concept repetition. He drops the ball and you see

the same reaction as to when the child first bounced the fall. It gets the child

curiouse to keep discovering. The child then reaches for a different size ball to

discover the same concept. He then reaches for a different type of material of ball

and discovers a new concept about the that ball.The classroom provided all
 different types of stacking cups and different sizes of balls for the children to play

with.

II. PART B

A. The child of 18 months can distinguish ordinary objects. She shows interest in

stuff animals such as dolls plays with them as she is feeding them.

B. The child shows signs that she is in the substage 6 which is the beginnings of

symbolic representation.

C. Toys that child will help them move on to the next stage will be toys such as dress

up and pretend toys.

D. The teacher plays pretend games with the child such as having them play cooking

games and also dress up as doctors. Some of the children play with objects that

make them believe they are cooking or being doctors in the classroom.

III. PART C

A. Scale 3

1. When I conducted the observation i began by choosing 12 items and let

the child play with the toys for about 2 minutes. The following items were

chosen for the observation: a ball, doll, spoon, paper towel, bracelet, ring,

a cape, blanket, a car, plastic shovel, plastic flower, and a marker. The

child had two minutes and to observe the objects.

2. These were my observations recorded for each item:

a) A ball

(1) The child began to throw the ball around the classroom.

b) Doll
 (1) The child began to feed the doll with the spoon.

c) Spoon

(1) Used the spoon to feed the doll food.

d) Paper towel

(1) Cleaned the table and the ground with the paper towel.

e) Bracelet

(1) Put the bracelet around his wrist.

f) Ring

(1) The child was unknown where to place the ring.

g) A cape

(1) Wrapped the cape around herself.

h) Blanket

(1) Placed the blanket on the doll. She said the baby was going

to sleep.

i) A car

(1) Speed the car around the course of tables.

j) Plastic shovel

(1) Directed the teacher she wanted to go outside. She began to

dug the ground with the shovel.

k) Plastic flower

(1) Placed the flower in a container and put water into the

glass.

l) Marker
 (1) Asked for a piece of paper to scribble on the paper.

B. Toys that I will offer the child will be objects that are pretend toys. Toys that that

imitate objects in the real life. Toys that help the child learn more about ordinary

objects in the real life.