AP22312

Guest Speaker

Johnny Barrett was the guest speaker in our class. Professor Barrett brought is son to tell the class what it is like to be five years old. Johnny told us he has an imaginary friend also named Johnny. His imaginary friend’s nickname is John and he is the opposite of Johnny. Professor Barrett gave Johnny a few of Piaget’s Conservation Tasks (Boyd 165). Johnny was not confused when asked when the original presentation was transformed. Johnny was asked if he could remember when he broke his arm and other things about his childhood. Johnny could not remember which I believe is from infantile amnesia. “Maturation of the connections between the hippocampus and the cerebral cortex is probably responsible for infantile Amnesia (Zola & Squire, 2003)” (Boyd 158). Johnny did a dance from the game just dance and rocked it. He was not embraced by the class watching him and was very focused on his character. He would get a little mixed up when the four characters would split up and do their own dance moves. When Professor Barrett asked Johnny to follow the same movements as him Johnny would mix up his left and right. Johnny’s motor skills seemed well developed and so did his cognitive skills. He did not get confused when Professor Barrett asked him who lived in the house and the relationship between them. Johnny could only seem to track on variable at a time when ask specific questions. Overall Johnny seems like a very smart kid for his age.

References: Bee, Helen L., and Denise Roberts Boyd. Lifespan development. Second Custom Edition for St. Johns River State College ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2012. Print.

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