Psy 210 Week 8 Case Study Psychology
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Tina Waller
Case Study
Psychology 210-B01
Rhonda Harris
Jan. 29, 2014
Case Study
The case study is on a six year old boy that brought a gun to school and shot another classmate. The two children had a scuffle the day before the incident happened. After the six year old boy shot his classmate he threw the gun down and took off running out of the room to hide. He did not act like he did anything wrong after the incident took place he was calm and drawing pictures. The boy had a history of violence in his family, with his father and grandfather currently in prison for gun related charges. He also lived in a violent environment. The legal system does not hold the six year old boy accountable for this crime. After looking at …show more content…
Piaget talks about cognitive development with children between the age of two and six are preoperational intelligence. Preoperational intelligence with children between the ages two and six do not use logical operations. This is the time when children have symbolic thought. In this case study you can see egocentrism and static reasoning. Egocentrism and static reasoning are both characteristic’s of preoperational thought. Egocentrism is when a child thinks about the world form their own personal perspective. Static reasoning is what preoperational children use and they believe that nothing in changes. Everything stays the same at all times. (Berger 2010) Another thing that was mention in cognitive development was social learning. It talks about how children are curious and take a lot of things. Children observe what the people around them do. If the people around them are handling guns and other illegal things, they are going to think that it is okay for them to do the same thing. I was always told, “Monkey does what monkey sees.” That basically means that people tend to do what they see other people doing. (Berger
Tina Waller
Case Study
Psychology 210-B01
Rhonda Harris
Jan. 29, 2014
Case Study
The case study is on a six year old boy that brought a gun to school and shot another classmate. The two children had a scuffle the day before the incident happened. After the six year old boy shot his classmate he threw the gun down and took off running out of the room to hide. He did not act like he did anything wrong after the incident took place he was calm and drawing pictures. The boy had a history of violence in his family, with his father and grandfather currently in prison for gun related charges. He also lived in a violent environment. The legal system does not hold the six year old boy accountable for this crime. After looking at …show more content…
Piaget talks about cognitive development with children between the age of two and six are preoperational intelligence. Preoperational intelligence with children between the ages two and six do not use logical operations. This is the time when children have symbolic thought. In this case study you can see egocentrism and static reasoning. Egocentrism and static reasoning are both characteristic’s of preoperational thought. Egocentrism is when a child thinks about the world form their own personal perspective. Static reasoning is what preoperational children use and they believe that nothing in changes. Everything stays the same at all times. (Berger 2010) Another thing that was mention in cognitive development was social learning. It talks about how children are curious and take a lot of things. Children observe what the people around them do. If the people around them are handling guns and other illegal things, they are going to think that it is okay for them to do the same thing. I was always told, “Monkey does what monkey sees.” That basically means that people tend to do what they see other people doing. (Berger