A child's emotionally and cognitively reaction during captivity, psychology assignment help

User Generated

Snovnaaa

Humanities

Description

A naturally developing 10-year-old becomes trapped, incapable of moving, in an inaccessible location. It takes rescuers over 10 hours to find and rescue the child from the location.

  b) Must meet APA guidelines

2) Include the following in the paper:

  a) Discuss how the child cognitively and emotionally responds during the confinement

  i) from Piaget’s Concrete Operational Stage perspective

  ii) from Erickson’s psychosocial perspective

  b) Discuss how this experience may affect the child as he/she ages through childhood and into adulthood.

1600 words, 3 scholarly articles in APA


User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool's honor code & terms of service.

Explanation & Answer

Kindly review. Thanks! Floyder

RUNNING HEAD: COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL REACTION OF A CHILD DURING
CAPTIVITY

Cognitive and Emotional Reaction of a child during captivity

RUNNING HEAD: COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL REACTION OF A CHILD DURING
CAPTIVITY
The ways in which a 10 years old child responds to a captive situation depend upon the
cognitive processes of the child. The intelligence and comprehension of reality of a child
develops during multiple stages of child development. The interpretation of reality primarily
depends upon the knowledge, personal experiences, and interaction with the external
environment. A 10 years old child may feel highly disoriented, confused, and terrified in
captivity because he feels in a state of emotional and cognitive d isequilibrium and he cannot find
ways to satisfy his cognitive and emotional needs. The Concrete Operational Stage in Piaget’s
theory of child development and Erickson’s Psychosocial Perspective provide substantial support
in illustrating the cognitive and emotional responses of a 10 years old child that stayed captive in
a place for 10 hours where he could not move.
Piaget’s Concrete Operational Stage
According to the philosophy of Piaget, children have the constant need of organization
and adaptation. Organization requires a child to constantly organize their existing knowledge
into systems of cognitive structure for the sake of interpretations and drawing inferences.
Adaptation refers to the process of making modifications to the existing knowledge to better
understand the newly occurring events or to learn or experience something new (Cook, L., J.
(2005)). Children assimilate the new experiences with the previous ones and if they cannot make
proper associations and relationships between the two, they enter a state of disequilibrium with
their mind. This state of disequilibrium allows the child to try to accommodate new knowledge
into existing cognitive beliefs to achieve a state of equilibrium with their mind. In this process,
children learn new knowledge and get a better understanding of their environment.

RUNNING HEAD: COGNITIVE AND ...

Similar Content

Related Tags