Developmental Toys 100 points Due: February 5 Purpose Your first writing assignm

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Developmental Toys 100 points Due: February 5 Purpose Your first writing assignment will help you apply 2 of the main developmental theorists (Piaget & Erikson) to a practical situation. This assignment serves the purpose of meeting one of the learning objectives listed in the syllabus: Describe key concepts, principles and overarching themes in developmental psychology Task: STEP 1: Either go to a toy store or find some toys online. Pick to each of the following ages: 6 months old 4 years old 8 years old ys that would be appropriate for STEP 2: Describe the toy and its purpose. STEP 3: Describe both Piaget's and Erikson's stages of development at this age and explain why the toys you chose are appropriate for that age group. Add supporting evidence from your Each explanation should be in a paragraph or two between 100-150 words. Do not exceed the text. imit. STEP 4: Include in-text citations when you reference your text and make an APA citation of your text at the end of your essay. 2ospuce rnt Criteria I will grade you according to the following scale 7 Points To 30 points 15 points Describes the toy, its Partially describes the Little or weak purpose, and describes toy, its purpose, andexplanation of the toy developmental theories describes (both Piaget's and Erikson's) that support (both Piaget's and the appropriateness of Erikson's) that support theories the toy for 6 month olds 6-month old its purpose, and developmental theories appropriate developmental the appropriateness of the toy for 6 month olds Describes the toy. its Partially describes the Little or weak purpose, and describes toy, its purpose, and explanation of the toy developmental theories describes (both Piaget's anddevelopmental theories appropriate Erikson's) that support(both Piaget's and or weak 4-year old its purpose, and

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STEP 1:

TOYS ARE AS UNDER:

1) Musical baby walker with push handle and attractive colors ---for 6 months old baby.

2)Brain booster game with 3 sets of cards laminated which help them to develop numeracy, learning language etc.---for 4 years old kids.

3)English learner laptop with 20 sets of activities which enhance creative learning without any stress and spell check ----for 8 year old kids.

STEP 2:

1) Musical baby walker for 6 months old baby helps the baby to walk and it also brings the body balance. As the toy is attractive with colours and sounds system thus baby will not feel any stress by doing this new work and an interest will grow to do this work repeatedly. Besides, with the help of this toy the baby can move very easily from one place to another which is also a very new thing to the baby.

2)Brain booster game has 3 sets of card which helps the kids of that age to concentrate on new things and numeracy, languages etc develops which is now very much required for them as they have entered to will enter soon to the educational world.

3)English learner laptop with various activities which are related to english language enhancement by creating words and sentences , gramatical errors corrections and spellings check etc. It will boost their vocabulary stock and enhancement of the english language which is very much required at this age onwards for achieving higher educations.

STEP 3:

1) According to Piaget the age of 6 months is known as sensorymotor stage and at this stage a baby is aware of those things only which are in front of them , they got attracted towards those things only thus physical interactions with those things develops which helps in developing a keen interest on them of those new things. So Musical baby walker helps them to reach those objects which are visible to them . Besides , physical interactions occours with those things and by doing this at the age of 6 to 9 months they start realising the object existance even if the object is now not in front of them so the baby puts more effort even to search for that object and thus walks more , it builds body balances and finally a practice of walking occours.According to erikson at this stage hope and will , these two things plays an vital role and thus a trust vs. mistrust situation exists in betwen them.  

2) As per Piaget this stage is known as preoperational stage and at this stage the kid becomes more familiar to use languages , they also develops thoughts and differences about past and imagination of future also . So the toy BRAIN BOOSTER game enhance the imagination and assumptions skills in them as this game includes create something which is justified or valid, recognisable . The kid use his past experiences at the time of his/her first experiences of physical interactions with the object that how it was. It gives them the sense of logical and illogical things. According to Erikson their main virtue is purpose and a deep sense of guilt and initiative . So the game is suitable to the kids of that stage .

3) At this stage the child becomes less ego centric and more familiar with the external activities,they are now able to demonstrate logically and explain something with a concrete reasoning , thatswhy at this stage child asks more whatever thay saw or something new to them. According to Piaget this stage is called concrete operational stage where children develops own thoughts and also able to understand that it should not to share always with the others in the reality. According to Erikson , this stage is of competency to them . So based on both the theories the toy English Learners laptop is very useful to them in learning the english language without any extra effort as they can now have sound reasoning and the full sense of logicality .Though at this stage a child cannot think abstractly or hypothetically which generally develops after the age of 10 years.

STEP 4:

I did,nt referred books but have used webmd.com to know clearly the stages exact development to match with the toys i have selected for them.

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