Everly's Play Case Study

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Case Study Everly’s play is exactly where the developmental norms are for her age rang. While observing, Everly played with her truck and her My Little Ponies. Everly would place her ponies on top of the truck and would pull the truck along with her hands to recreate driving. In Everly’s play there was a conflict with the characters because all of the ponies wanted to be the truck driver. Everly held one pony and pushed all the other ponies off the truck while recreating the voices of the ponies. Everly resolved the conflict in the play by concluded that the pony she was holding owned the truck, so that pony got to drive the truck. Everly displayed make-believe play because she was acting out an everyday role of a truck driver through her ponies, and created and resolved a conflict through imaginative play (Berk & Meyer, 2012, p.373). Everly’s play is right on track for her age range and is expected to continue to develop as she gets older. Everly’s motor skills and physical milestones are developing and hitting the norms for her age group. Everly can skip, hop, and run with ease, in addition to throwing and catching with increasing flexibility (Berk & Meyer, 2012, p.408). Observers studied Everly’s physical milestones while she was playing with observer Hayley. The game was to run up and tag Hayley’s hand, and while Everly was running, Hayley would time how long it took for her hand to be tagged. Everly would use her gross motor skills in different ways to decrease her time. The observers agree that Everly hits the norms or gross-motor skills. Observers were specifically impressed with Everly’s fine- motor skills. Everly could draw all the basic shapes, but when she was asked to draw a person, Everly drew a very realistic figure of a …show more content…
Observers performed two tests on Everly, which included Piaget’s the conservation of number task and the conservation of mass task. When observers performed the conservation of mass task, they took a ball of model magic and broke it in half evenly. Then observers asked Everly if these two blobs of model magic were even, and Everly responded yes. After, observers took one of the blobs and proceeded to break the blob into tiny little pieces. Once completed, observers asked Everly if the original big blob, and the tiny pieces were the same amount. Everly replied that the group of tiny pieces had more because there were more pieces than the original blob. Everly’s reply hit the norm for her age range because a four and a half year old struggles with the conservation of mass. Observers then performed the conservation of number task with Everly. The observers took Everly’s My Little Ponies and made two even lines that each included six ponies. Observers asked Everly if the lines were the same. Everly counted the ponies in each line and concluded they were the same. Then observers separated the ponies in one of the lines to make the line longer, and asked Everly if the lines were the same. Everly counted the ponies in each line again and concluded they were the same. In the conversation of number task, Everly performed above her age range norms. Typically, a child of Everly’ age would

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