Children Are A Product Of The People And Things They Are

Children are a product of the people and things they are surrounded by. As they age, they will encounter trials and advancements that will either make or break them. Researchers have been working for over 100 years to develop facts and theories that explain and analyze childhood development. This paper will analyze various aspects of childhood development, such as associative play, attention ability, aggression, and conformity with the help of observations from interactions during preschool free play analyzed by the social cognition theory. Associative Play Associative play is a concept under the umbrella of Mildred Parten’s system of children’s social play, called â€Å"Stages† of Play. This stage of play occurs when peers play alongside†¦show more content†¦The peers would offer their toys to each other, bounce it on one of their shoulders, and even glide them along the blocks, but they never joined into one specific activity. These details of their interactions make this example even more fitting to represent the Associative stage of play because of their level of social interaction outside of the playing with the wooden blocks. As the time past, they were remained content with doing their own thing, keeping one another company, and dancing to the same beat. Attention Ability Major strides in child’s ability to pay attention occurs during their preschool years (Santrock, 2013, p. 267). Being able to focus on one thing can be extremely difficult for toddlers because of all the things in their world that are able to catch their attention, but luckily, as they grow and mature they are able to advance in their attention skills. An aspect of attention that is improved during these years, is the ability to focus on one task or object for an extended period of time, a concept known as, sustained attention (Santrock, 2013, p. 268). 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