Dual Representation In Children

In the short story, “Barbie-Q” By Sandra Cisneros uses a Barbie doll to portray the two young girls inner struggles with perfection and identity. Cisneros wanted to use two girls from families with limited incomes to get the surprise of having a local toy warehouse and stacks of burnt Barbie dolls, which immediately makes them available for a bargained price. The characters that Cisneros uses help show a flow of consciousness by using a variety of adjective and listing to capture the voice of these two girls. She also wanted to show the young girls infatuation with Barbie dolls. This shown when one of the young girls is describing her Barbie doll in comparison to the other

innovation could increase the girls’ pride with the doll because of the shared features and participation

II. A little clay doll shorter than a foot is what really makes them curious. This little foreign doll reveals more about me and my character more than anything in my room. [Thesis Statement]

Children’s child play has become a form of an unrealistic world. Although, it is considered for children to begin creating a creative imagination, the mind fascinates children into toys. Some child’s play toys are not ideal for young children, like the one and only “Barbie”. Barbie has become a worldwide toy product for children all over the world, from the North Pole to the South Pole. These dolls have emerged from one ethnicity to another. In Ann DuCille, “Dyes and Dolls: Multicultural Barbie and the Merchandising of Differences” the author talks about the race and gender differences; found in Barbie. She argues; “Is Barbie bad?” her response, was “Barbie is just a piece of plastic” (459). In contrast, this piece of plastic is not just a piece of plastic to young girls; it is much more than that. A piece of plastic that little girls all over the world wish they could be. Even though, it is only a piece of plastic to adults that Barbie significantly means nothing to them. Growing up, I owned a couple of Barbie dolls. The tall, long blond hair, blue-eyed doll was my best friend and my “role model”. I wanted to become exactly like Barbie. As a child, I thought only beautiful people who looked liked Barbie signified beauty. To my little to no knowledge, I soon came to find out no one really looks like Barbie, except people who want to become like Barbie. In my adolescent years, no one taught me Barbie was “unreal”; no one taught me it was just a figure in my imagination.

In the play, “A Doll House,” written in 1879, the main character is a doll for her husband and for her father. She realizes that when living with her father, she would develop the same opinions as him, and stifle her own opinion if it differed from his. Her father even called her his doll child. She, Nora, also becomes aware that he played with

Bandura suggested children learn from watching adults – referred to as ‘Bobo doll experiment’. Three groups of children watched a film of a variation in behaviour in adults towards a doll.

Young girls have been playing with Barbie dolls since the dolls inception at the American International Toy Fair in New York. Recently, researchers have been skeptical on whether the dolls have an effect on the self-image of girls who play with them. In order to determine if Barbies have an impact on young-girls self-concept, clinicians have carried out several studies where they monitor the interaction between the young girls and the famous figurine. From these experiments, scientists concluded that Barbies can have a bearing on a girls self-image, making the consumers who buy the doll more aware of the issue Barbie

persona dolls are good for preparing children for a child coming into the setting with a disability, illness, colour of skin it helps the children to gain knowledge on these situations before the child comes and helps them to deal with it and treat the child the same as everyone else. You can also use them for problems in the group and they are used for discussions and problem solving. The children quickly bond and identify with the dolls and see them as small friends, they are happy and sad for them, and talk about their problems. My persona doll promotes equality because it shows the children that Jake is still the same as the other children even though he has Cerebral Palsy he can still do everything that they do he just struggles with physical activity and needs his PE lessons adapted to suit his needs. By using Jake the children learn that they shouldn’t treat children with disabilities any differently and they should make sure that they involve them and not to isolate them because it makes them feel

In Bridge to Teribithia, some characters were depicted in ways that were considered either appropriate or not developmentally appropriate. For example, in the movie May belle is considered what is developmentally appropriate for her age. In lecture we discussed the preoperational stage from ages 2-7years, Paget’s developmental suggest that children are capable of understanding the usage of symbols, and also through symbolic pretend play. This is supported by Deloache’s dual representation, which he suggests children identify an object as one thing and use if for a different purpose. For example, May belle takes her dads work keys to use them as bells for Jess, and Leslie kingdom in Teribithia.

doll endowed with extremely exaggerated features, which originated in a more adult venue, is a fact I find very important as I investigate the effect toys like these have in the hands of children.

Cognitive development approach describes Darlene’s behavior by way of schema. Schema is the way in which we mentally categorize things we have learned. By age 2 ½ she would have learned that she is a girl (gender identity). Her parents then would further shape this knowledge (schema) by giving her the gender- specific toy (i.e. the doll). At this age Darlene would also be in school and watching more television, which would also play a vital part in shaping this schema. If she were to step outside of the gender-stereotypical roll of doll playing she would be subject to bullying and segregated from her female counterparts. The Television would place in mind that dolls are only for girls via commercial advertisement.

The types of toys children play with can affect how they develop. Toys can help or hinder a child’s development in intelligence, social skills and personality. Certain characteristics may be genetically entwined in a human being, but some characteristics and behaviors can be learned, from parents, surroundings, and the toys with which a youngster plays. Elise Moore, author of “How Do Toys Aid Development”, stated “if play is the work of the child, toys are the child’s tools” (Moore, 2).

The issue of whether interviewers should use interview aids has been given attention by researchers. Although the use of anatomically-correct dolls has been called into question, still it appears that the use of dolls and drawings, among other interview aids, depends on the training and skill of the interviewer (Brown et al., 2007; Katz and Hamama, 2013, Poole and Dickinson, 2011). Newlin and her colleagues (2015) indicate that continuing research is needed to better shed light on how and when the use of interview aids might positively influence children’s verbal description of remembered events.

Katherine Mansfield's "The Dolls House" seems to be a simple story about children receiving a own ideas and opinions. Even though everyone is entitled to their own opinion it is often bizarre to see how our opinions are based on those of others. This essay will outline the events that occurred in the story which are a big part in regards to the two different worlds of adults and children, and how they are separated from each other.

By age four when children’s self-concepts start to emerge, they are often aware and proud to show off their skills and accomplishments. A child who mastered the art of referencing a fire truck as “red”, will start to show off their toy truck and say “red” to whomever they meet, or whoever is around. If the child draws a picture,