Thumb sucking

Jean Piaget On August 9, 1896 in Neuchatel, Switzerland one of the most well-known psychologists was born. This man changed the way that people think about children and also raised our curiosity as to why children think the way that they do. To us, the mind of a child is very hard to understand because we do things differently and we also have a more complex way of thinking than they do. Before Jean Piaget’s work became known, people thought that children were less knowledgeable thinkers than…

The maxillary midline diastema is one of the dento-alveolar disorders that cause special concern to patients and parents, specifically, given its position. Among 5-year-old children, during the period of primary dentition, the maxillary midline diastema appears in 97% of cases and along with primate spaces, predicts a future development of mixed and permanent dentition, without crowding. The…

Autism is becoming more prevalent in the US. According to the CDC “Approximately 1 in 68 children in the United States has an Autism Spectrum Disorder”. Boys are more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls. Most children with autism are affected by tooth decay and other dental diseases. Childhood tooth decay is the #1 chronic children disease. Tooth decay doesn’t just affect children with special needs but the general population. Not all children with autism are getting the proper oral…

Tyler Robertson Social Development in Infancy: Roles of Temperament and Attachment Temperament represents a set of inherent qualities of an individual that affect the organization of his or her behavior. Most experts agree that temperament has a biological basis justified by factors such as genetic influences, but they disagree on temperament’s strict definition or what are its basic dimensions. However, one of the most prominent methods for measuring temperament based on Mary Rothbart’s three…

man thinks about letting Harry do it. He likes how it’s Harry begging for it even though the younger boy is the one who has not come in a week. Harry always gets so hard from sucking Louis off, like a physical response to having his mouth used. The Beast rubs his hands up and down the younger man’s soft thighs, circling his thumb proudly over the shadow of a bruise he left there a few days ago. “You can blow me later,” he says reasonably, as if he were bestowing Harry with a gift (which, knowing…

Piaget’s cognitive stages draw a map for brain development, although it is known that some stages take longer for some individuals. From birth to two years, children are within the sensorimotor stage of development. They experience the world by sucking on objects, biting, and actions such as the rooting reflex. Eventually, they realize that objects do exist outside of their realm of vision through the notion of object permanence. Stranger anxiety is a relevant fear in this stage, as kids start…

Shanleigh Curry Teague High School John Broadus Watson Emma and John Watson gave birth to John Broadus Watson in 1878. John was born in Greenville, South Carolina into a poor family (Cohan). His mother, Emma was a faith going, Bible believing woman (PBS). His father John was, who he was closer with was the complete opposite, he loved to have affairs on Emma and he drank excessively and he eventually left them in 1891. John married Mary Ikes whom he met at the University of Chicago while…

Stages of the psycho sexual development given by Sigmund Freud are as follows :- Oral (Birth to 18 months) - In this stage the child gets pleasure through sucking and the child is more concentrated towards the oral pleasures. Over or little gratification may lead in the oral fixation that are evident by the oral personality. These personality are more prone to drink alcohol, smoke cigarette, develops the habit to overeat and has the habit of cutting or biting his or her nails. Also these…

field notes, she spent a lot of the time interacting with me or my mom. At times, however, M could be very attentive, but the attention span lasted no longer than 5 minutes. During the periods of complete attentiveness, I did notice that M was sucking her thumb. Seeing as this happened every time M showed evidence of extended attentiveness, I am going to conclude that the two correlates in some way. When M was paying attention, she seemed to understand the basic concept of basketball. M knew to…

Observational Methods In 2011, Lauren H. Supplee, Emily Moye Skuban, Christopher J. Trentacosta, Daniel S. Shaw, and Emilee Stoltz explored the changes in boys’ emotional Self-Regulation Strategies (SRS) from toddlerhood through to preschool using repeated observational assessments during delay of gratification tasks at 2-, 3-, and 4 years of age. Theory suggests young children initially use more emotion focused SRS before transitioning to greater use of planful SRS by 4 years of age, but…