Janey’s Dance :: Child Development Short Stories Essays

Janeys terpsichoreThe Doe household is silent, seemingly without life in all its rooms. in time listening carefully, a faint sound can be perceive leaking from the walls of little Janeys tactical maneuverroom. Moving closer, the tunes of Lamb-Chops sing-a-long cassette tapes become impeccably clear This is the cry that never ends . . . Peeking inside, not wanting to disturb the natural environment of the 11 month old, we see Janeys reactions to this classic song. She is standing latched onto her chartreuse play table, bouncing up and down and flailing her right arm in an babes cadenceic motion. Her mouth is open in a wide, dizzy grin as squeaks of happy sounds are released into the air. She is, in effect, jump to the rhythm of Lamb Chop. What has contributed to Janeys behavior? How has she progressed from a sedentary, crying newborn to an active, insane infant? There are a few different ways to interpret this developed behavior, stemming from four disti nct theoretical frameworks used in the field of developmental psychology. Each model has its own explanation of Janeys Lamb-Chop dance and all provide important contributions to a acknowledgment of this charming behavior. An examination of the infants dance from a biological-maturation position focuses on the development of Janeys physical structures and physiological processes that allow her behavior to take place. This activity should not be expected from a trey month old because an infant of that age has not experienced the maturational changes in the body and brain that are necessary to facilitate dancing in its earliest manifestations. Human development occurs in a cephalocaudal pattern, thereby beginning in the head and working downward from that point. organize muscle movements of the arms are not apparent until approximately terce months of age and the same behavior in the legs usually not witnessed until about nine months. To allow moveme nts to occur, an infants bone and muscle structures must(prenominal) develop from the soft, thin, fragile structures they are born with. The bones in the have and wrist are among the first to ossify (Cole & Cole, 2001, p.