Child Observation Paper

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Before I began observing the child I wanted to choose a few categories of theories I would look out for. I chose Howard Gardner and his multiple intelligence theories, or Laurence Kohlberg and moral development theory to look for. The child I was observing had just turned two so with moral development theory I knew I could really only look to see if he had reached level one: preconventional morality. As I was observing the child, he was playing outside with his toys. I noticed he wouldn’t sit and play with his cars, he would get up and move one car to the other side of the grass and come back and play from different angles. He would lay down and look up at the cars and lay on chairs and lean over to play with them while looking down. After

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