Child Play Time Naturalistic Observation

Describe the setting and why you chose it.

The naturalistic observation approach is performed in a pre-school environment. The reason being that the environment allows the experiment to focus on the possibility of behavior of a child to be influenced by environmental factors or conditions, giving a comprehensive depiction of what occurs in classrooms in the case of preschool children. The following study gives a unique observational design and approach which allows numerous observations on a child for the purpose of examining the trends of behaviors both within and across classroom event settings and the manner in which they relate to a given child's gender and also basic tutor conducts (Leslie M. Booren, Jason T. Downer, & Virginia E. Vitiello, 2012).

Discuss the age, gender, ethnicity and overall physical description of the child?

The observation was performed on a child of pre-school age, around five years of age who was a from a white-American ethnographic background. The participating child's sample was alike in family (that is, family income, maternal education and race) and the classroom (that is, teacher education and teacher age). Demographic features were not included in the study (Leslie M. Booren, Jason T. Downer, & Virginia E. Vitiello, 2012).

iii. Discuss the play activities the child is doing. Give examples.

Some activities are discoursed through the following examples (Leslie M. Booren, Jason T. Downer, & Virginia E. Vitiello, 2012).

a. In the case of peer interactions, the child devoted a significantly larger amount of their time in having social interaction at the time of play activities (for instance, play with their toys or imaginary play) compared to other activities.

b. Peer interaction transpired more often during free play compared to the more tutor-directed events. For task-related activities, the child was mainly inclined towards individually targeted relations than group-oriented tasks.

iv. Discuss the cognitive abilities the child is demonstrating. Give examples.

The cognitive behaviors that... Booren, Jason T. Downer, & Virginia E. Vitiello, 2012), (Michael W. Eysenck, 2004).
a. The child possessed more sophisticated interactions with objects during activities which present a lot of cognitive demand from a child, for instance participating in goal-oriented problem-solving or methodical experimentation during the free choice situations.

b. From the observations made, there is a possibility that the child is likely to perform below par on a task simply because he lacked full understanding of what was required from them by the experimenter. A way of dealing with the problem involved allowing the experimenter to have flexibility when it comes to asking questions.

v. Discuss the psychosocial behaviors the child is demonstrating. Give examples.

In my opinion, lab researches or studies are artificial and so many researchers favor naturalistic observations in which day-to-day behavior is observed in a natural setting (Observational Research, 2005). Organization of event or activity settings, for example, free choice, large group, meals, etc. is mainly a classroom setting which teachers employ intentionally to schedule the child's time during preschool day, and it can have a key role in the manner the child develops, practice skills and effectively switch to elementary school level. In my case, too, the child seemed to have got used to the environment around him as he did not show any sign of abnormality or anxiety during the day of observation. I observed the child to be happy and normal while behaving with other children in the class room. The child was polite while interacting with the classroom instructors. (Leslie M. Booren, Jason T. Downer, & Virginia E. Vitiello, 2012).

vi. Discuss the emotional behaviors the child is demonstrating. Give examples.

The environment chosen provided the child who I was observing an opportunity to achieve with contentment and to move over any past upsets. The child was thoughtful while being alone on certain occasions. The child brought out his inner feelings of expressing happiness while utilizing…