Journal Entry Instructions

1. Plan a visit with a child you know, or spend some time in a park or on a playground, watching children interact. You can also locate home videos posted on YouTube or other video sharing sites.

2. In your journal using full sentences and paragraphs, give examples of how the children you observed demonstrated each the following (please comment on each behavior below):

• Sensorimotor behavior: object permanence testing or purposeful action
• Preoperational behavior: egocentrism, animism, artificialism, or objective responsibility
• Concrete operational behavior: decentration or subjective moral judgments

3. In the next part of the journal, think back to when you were a preteen. List examples of you or your friends’ behavior that was consistent with the following developmental theories (please comment on each theory below):

• deductive reasoning
• imaginary audience
• personal fable
• post-conventional moral reasoning
• ego identity and/or role diffusion

4. Submit your journal entry to your instructor for a grade.

*Be sure to use several paragraphs to answer each question above. Your paper must be at least 400 words not including headers, footers, or pasted prompts. 

Grading Rubric

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Submission Guidelines

Only doc, docx, and odt file types are accepted – PDF files are not accepted.  You may download Microsoft Office for free under Pages.