Jean Rhys

MST 313 Semester Project Progress report 1 Wheelchair-friendly Carousel for children fig 1. A sketch of the carousel (Pretorius, 2015) Bernadine Pretorius 28302207 Armand Meyer 10026305 Erica Davison 12064212 Target Market: The design of this wheelchair friendly carousel is targeted at children who are physically disabled and unable to use more conventional jungle gyms/outdoor toys. This carousel can be designed to be part of an indoor playground and can also become inclusive…

Claude Monet The paintings of Claude Monet include three main stages of a woman’s life, which are youth, matrimony and upbringing a child. The first stage of a woman’s life is youth entitled “Lily Butler in Claude Monet’s Garden”. Youth could generally be defined as an age of people between childhood and maturity, which based on cultural or social viewpoints of the particular society. The painting represents a young woman dressed in white long attire, arching herself a little to the front to…

Annika (Annie): Female A. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CHILD: 1. Annie was approximately 3 ½ feet and came up to my waist. Annie was within the normal height range. 2. She seemed to be of similar weight to other children in her “class” or age group. She was not chunky or bony, but slim with normal, symmetrical body features. 3. A unique physical characteristic that I could use to describe Annie as a preschooler is her ability to write her name at a young age. Secondly, I could also…

Cognitive, emotional, intellectual and social capabilities and functioning over the course of the life span from infancy through old age. This is the developmental psychology. Infancy is the period between birth till he learns the language. In few months they are able to recognise their mother by seeing her and show sensitivity to human speech. Even though infants can’t see they show behaviour related processes. If the infants are exposed to stimulus repeatedly they show decrease in response…

Theorist Information (Name & Year)- Lawrence Kohlberg 1940s-1980s Theory Overview- Lawrence Kohlberg used Piaget’s theory of moral development to expand these principles to understand distinct levels of moral reasoning in stages based upon cognitive abilities. Aspect of Lifespan Development (Module Focus)- Moral development Theory Components – Pre-conventional morality • Obedience and punishment orientation • Individualism and exchange Conventional morality • Good interpersonal relationships •…

Adolescence period has a specific role in the life of a person. It is a transitional period from childhood to adulthood. It is a unique phase of life which a child goes and explores different things on their own. A physical, emotional and social change. Social influence has a major impact throughout life, namely for adolescents and for their involvement in certain risk or health behaviors. There are two main resource of their influence – friends and parents. (Gibbon, Pamery and Gerard 2008)…

The birth order theory was discovered by Alfred Adler. The theory refers to the order of birth in which one was born in. It is sometimes believed that the order in which a child is born in plays a significant role in how the child will act in life. The birth order theory has four birth order personalities, first born, second born, the only child, and youngest. I grew up in a large family of five sisters, and one brother. I was the baby or last born for about five years before my youngest sister…

Child psychology is the psychological process of children. Through their surrounding and environment, it is how the children’s behavior is being shaped. In addition to that, children also use their sensory, motor and perceptual skills. However, caregivers need to watch what these children learn outside. By knowing how to educate the right way can result to success in children while doing it the wrong way could lead to failure. Different learning style can determine different learning outcome.…

Over the course of the life cycle, humans are continuously changing and developing; this is known as developmental psychology. One of the lead psychologists of developmental psychology was Erik Erikson who created the theory that each stage of the human life cycle comes with its own psychosocial task or crisis that needs resolution. I interviewed four individuals in relation to four of the stages of Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development. For the adolescent stage, I interviewed Calli…

Young age is the one when a person needs time from one’s parents and people who live in surroundings. How a child gets matured in an environment depends on basically two things – nature and nurture. Nature is what the child has been endowed with by birth. But that too has an effect on the activities going on in the surroundings of that child. The mother, the father, the siblings(if any), and many other people who live around the child, who work around the child, have a permanent influence.…