My Virtual Child Paper My virtual child covers physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development at several age levels. This gave me an opportunity to visualize "the whole child" at various points in development. I raised a virtual child from birth to 18 years of age. Each virtual child has a unique set of characteristics at birth, some of which were influenced by how I answered the assessment I completed when I first logged onto My Virtual Child. These characteristics gradually emerged and
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An essay on my virtual child by Kara Lamb: The gender of my child is male; I named him Nathan after my real life partner. Like my first attempt the program gave us a girl when Nathan was around the age of 3, of which I named Marley. I did not seek outside help for this trial or have help from my real life partner. The application I wanted to focus on was language and how it develops over the time in my virtual child. In early infancy we start to see reflexive cries. An example of this
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My Virtual Child, Peyton Basically, this is all about my virtual child, Peyton. That's all I will be talking about in this...I know it's exciting! Thursday, November 27, 2008 Bonus Assignment 1. Are there any issues you had with your parents, your school work, your friends, or your romantic involvements in the last year of high school that continued to be issues for you in college? First of all, don’t all teenagers have issues with their parents? I didn’t have a ton of issues with them as most
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Running head: MY DEVELOPMENT STORY Development story paper Perlita Citrus Community College 1 My development story 2 My development story My personal development journey across the lifespan from birth to my current age which is twenty years old, was a long journey I don’t think I would ever change. In this paper I will cover and analyze the various dimensions of development at each stage, which are physical, cognitive, personality and social. Physical development is the growth
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My Virtual Child Paper My virtual child covers physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development at several age levels. This gave me an opportunity to visualize "the whole child" at various points in development. I raised a virtual child from birth to 18 years of age. Each virtual child has a unique set of characteristics at birth, some of which were influenced by how I answered the assessment I completed when I first logged onto My Virtual Child. These characteristics gradually emerged and
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My virtual child’s name is Lawson. He is a male with dark hair, dark eyes, and a light complexion. Looking at Lawson’s personality characteristics, behavioral patterns, and cognitive and social-emotional developmental patterns as an infant, he was very difficult to soothe when upset and was cautious and shy in new situations or with new people. It was rare for him to completely warm up to a new situation or person. He also had very strong emotional reactions and found difficulty soothing himself
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My Virtual Child I began the program with some certain goals in mind. My idea was to use these as a type of structure on how I wanted to raise my child. I knew first of all that I didn’t want to be a strict parent. I did enforce rules and punish her at times but overall I wanted her to be responsible for her own actions. Also that getting good grades and being active in social life was very important. Lastly that she would play some type of sport or at least be very active. These didn’t have to be
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My Virtual Child Paper My virtual child covers physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development at several age levels. This gave me an opportunity to visualize "the whole child" at various points in development. I raised a virtual child from birth to 18 years of age. Each virtual child has a unique set of characteristics at birth, some of which were influenced by how I answered the assessment I completed when I first I was asked to create and answer questions about a virtual child. When
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many dangers that face children in the virtual world. It’s up to the parents to keep the kids safe from those dangers. The Harmful Effects of Computers and the Internet Over the past few years, I have noticed just how dependent my whole family is on technology. Currently in my home we have four computers with internet access, two Microsoft X-Box 360s, a Sony Playstation 2 and a Playstation 3. As a wife and mother, I have to be concerned about what my family is being exposed to. I thought
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Behavior Analysis for Week -6 Final I will be talking about my current job as a Child Protective Investigator (CPI) also known as Child Protective Services (or CPS). This is the governmental agency that is tasked with investigating child abuse or neglect. The primary concern of a CPI is the safety of the child; they do this by assessing the risk involved. By weighing that risk the CPI has to make the decision rather to remove the children or child from the home or place services within the home that will
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