Yamilette Gonzalez
The University of Arizona
Birthday Party Videos Project#1
Introduction: For this project I decided to compare and contrast two typically developing children of ages two and five. I chose the videos from the list provided to the class, which where girl #2 on the 2-year-old column and girl# 1 on the 5 year old column. My hypothesis based on what I know from this course so far and reading a couple of articles on the web, is that the two year old girl will seem to be a bit confused and quiet, especially when singing to her or blowing the candles, but will be excited and playful when other children are around but not exactly interact with them (“Growth and Development, Ages 2 …show more content…
A difference between the two videos is language. In the 2-year-old video, based on my observations, she only said one word. It was difficult in a way to collect data based on the video being fast-forward at some points. For the 5-year-old video, also based on the data I collected, she said 28 words. Each coding was for 3 minutes and 30 seconds, which started on the “Happy Birthday” song. Language development grows dramatically within 2 years of age to a child of 5 years of age. The 2-year-old girl only said “open” when referring to her mom opening her present. The 5-year-old can create full sentences almost perfectly. Based on Piaget’s theory of development, in the preoperational stage children language grows significantly (Siegler & Alibali, 2005, p.41). The child in this video interacts a lot with her playmates and seems to want to be liked in a way. Piaget also states that children in this stage can have a difficult time looking passed there own self (Siegler & Alibali, 2005, p.42).
As I predicted with the hypothesis I made previously, the 2-year-old girl seemed to be a little confused of what was going on in her surroundings. She did not seem to be focused or interested, where as the 5-year-old girl seemed to be very interested and intrigued with the event. Based on the data I collected for coding schemes, the 2- year- old only smiled once, where as the 5-year-old smiled about 10 times within the same time frame that was previously explained for the two videos as