Infant Observation Paper

Infant/ Toddler Observation
The following information was based from an observational study of a nine-month old male infant who is a child of a Korean-American married couple. This Child’s name is Kyungson Cho and his parents are employed as both white and blue collar workers, where his father works as a doctor and his mother works as a nurse. However, his mother is still considered under parental leave and now works as a home-maker. This study was placed within the child’s own dwelling locating in Forty-Fort, Pennsylvania with the presence of five people, including the child, ranging from nine-months to thirty-two years of age. Of the people present were Kyungson Cho’s two cousins, Jessica (24 yrs.) and Tiffany (24 yrs.), his mother (32yrs.), Kyungson (9 Mo.) and myself (18yrs.). The observation took place predominately within the Cho family’s living room with a plethora of children’s toys and belongings sprawled out on the floor on top of a single white and fluffy carpet. A grey couch
He showed much curiosity towards the tripod and even began to grope the object tremendously. In fact, Kyungson showed more attention to the tripod then his own two cousins, Jessica and Tiffany, who fought for his attention and affection. While playing with the child, Tiffany would lift the black tripod from side to side in an attempt to get it out of his view, but to her surprise Kyungson had developed the ability to look for the object and could use his eyes to recognize the moving object and from there worked to move closer to the object. Such ability, showed signs that Kyungson had developed a mental representation of the object and by learning that objects are separate entities that could exist on their own outside the individual’s perception produced the capability for infants to begin to attach words and names to