SOC 312 Week 2 DQ 1 - The Theory of Mind

SOC 312 Week 2 DQ 1 – The Theory of Mind

Watch the following short film, Theory of Mind.mov, demonstrating the theory of mind using a juice box experiment.

At around four years of age, a fundamental change occurs in children’s understanding of others’ behaviors or what is also called theory of mind. Using your knowledge from our readings, watch the video to determine which stage both Jacob and Patrick are currently in respectively.

Discuss both Jacob’s and Patrick’s reaction to the “mean monkey.” What stage would Erickson say each child is in? How do these different stages influence their values and attitudes? Do you think it is possible for a child over the age of three to have trouble understanding that his or her beliefs can be false? Explain your reasoning.

Guided Response: Review all of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two classmates. Include how you would explain to a child how their beliefs could be incorrect. Give specific examples that would be appropriate for a three- to five-year-old child.

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SOC 312 Week 3 Assignment Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Strategies

Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Strategies

Read the article 10 Effective DAP Teaching Strategies, presented by the NAEYC.

Choose at least three (but no more than five) of these strategies and explain why they will work with a child in Piaget’s Preoperational Stage. Give examples of how you can foster each of your chosen strategies in the classroom/home and explain how and why these will increase the child’s cognitive advances.

Choose two of the limitations (centration, irreversibility, focus on states rather than on transformations, transduction, egocentrism, animism, and the inability to distinguish appearance from reality) experienced by a child in this stage and explain how your chosen strategy will help diminish these limitations.

Using the information from your text, the given article, and one additional resource, submit a two- to three-page paper giving a summary of each of the strategies chosen, as well as an explanation of how each strategy will positively affect the two limitations.

Criteria:

Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include at least one scholarly resource in addition to the text.
Must include, on the final page, a reference list that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must be well organized and reflect college-level writing.

Carefully review the Grading Rubricfor the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.