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Guest Speaker- Johnny

This week we had guest speaker Johnny Barrett, Professors Barrett’s five year old son, who talked about what is was like to be a five year old. As I began to observe Johnny, I noticed that Johnny is a very normal acting and intelligent five year old. As Professor Barrett was asking Johnny about the roles of each family member, Johnny was able to respond to the questions correctly without getting mixed up having the questions being asked in different forms, which is very unusual for many five year old because they easy can get mixed up with how the questions are asked. I also noticed that during the conservation tasks, or the understanding that matter can change in appearance without changing in quality (Boyd), Johnny was able to do exceptionally well in the test of conservation of numbers and area, but showed trouble in something similar to the conservation of liquid, where Professor Barrett took a piece of paper and cut them into pieces and asked Johnny if they were similar, as to he responded with “Yes, because there’s two” (Barrett). What I noticed was that Johnny was using centration, or the tendency to think of the world in terms of one variable at a time (Boyd), he only was comparing how many pieces of paper there was, not the size of them, which is very normal for many children his age. Working with children of VPK for two years, Johnny was doing exceptionally well and somewhat advanced in the all the milestones of development compared to other children I have seen; it was a certain joy to have Johnny in class.

References: >
 * Barrett, Johnny. Human Growth and Development. Saint John's River State College, Orange Park. 15 Jul. 2014. Guest Speaker.
 * Boyd, Denise Roberts., and Helen L. Bee. //Lifespan Development//. Sixth ed. Boston: Pearson Allyn & Bacon, 2012. Print.

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