Lorie Mae A.
Ladaga Field Study 1
BPED 4 Instructor: Daryl Niko Cempron
EPISODE 2
OBSERVE
Identify an adolescent learner to be your observation subject.
Below is a checklist of the developmental milestones for the
adolescence stage (11-18 years old) in socio-emotional and
cognitive areas. Please make important annotations as you check
either observed or not observed in each of the indicators.
Developmental Observed Not Memoing
Milestones Observed (Reflective notes)
Socio-Emotional Development
1. Keen to √ She wanted to feel
establish a place accepted and
in peer group valued by her
friends. She want
a feeling of
belonging by a
group of peers.
2. „Gang‟ or √ Groups becomes
group becomes important for her
extremely because she
important desires to fit in, be
like her idolized
peers, do what
others do, and get
what others have.
3. Increased √ She wants to have
desire to be freedom on
independent of making on her
parents own, wanted to go
to far places to
study, and
practice to be
dependent on her
own.
4. Preoccupied √ She is more
with own concerned on her
behavior, body image,
personality, especially that she
physical has a scoliosis
appearance and also her
behaviors, on how
she behave with
her peers or in
people
surrounding her.
She tend to
develop and know
her personality,
being close-
mindedness and
having great self-
control.
5. Self-concept √ She can form of
more tied to an idea that is
abstract traits or non-material. Her
ideology ideas are
unrealistic and
impressionistic.
Tends to imagine
things not seen or
experienced.
6. Shows greater √ She urged to
tolerance for sex- postpone sexual
typical behaviors engagement until
she is physically,
cognitively, and
emotionally
capable of mature
sexual
relationships.
7. Sex differences √ Her higher level of
concerning indirect
aggression aggression has a
diminish negative impact
on social life in
schools.
8. Both sexes √ She is becoming
show gender more conscious of
intensification gender-
appropriate
behavior.
9. Becomes √ As she reach
more interested puberty, she
in peers of the develop interest in
opposite sex opposite sex. She
can start to have
special feeling
towards each
other or dream of
romantic love.
10. Utters obscenities √ Sometimes she is
and jokes within relying on humors
cultural norms and discriminate
others in their
cultural norms.
11. May revolts √ She rebels
against because of social
parental authority to pressure. She talk
conform to peer group back to her
standards parents to get
what she want
because it is what
her peers have.
12. Teenage √ Gathering with
„hangouts‟ peers is an
become essential part of
important her lifestyle as
centers of activity they can know
more with each
other, learn some
new things and to
develop social
skills.
Score (Observed) 12
Cognitive Development
1. Likes to √ She likes to
discuss and debate express her
thoughts and
abstract ideas.
2. Able to √ She gains the
classify, arrange ideas, ability to think
generalize about ideas
rationally.
3. Developing √ Her ideas towards
definite ideas religion, politics,
and attitudes, for and others are
example, influenced by her
towards religion, parents’ beliefs.
politics, race, etc.
4. Can deal with more √ She tend to
abstract concepts compare what is
to what could be.
5. Likely to be √ She become very
more interested in conscious of
politics, religion, sex social injustice
and political
issues.
6. Creative √ She tends to
talents may become generate creative
evident ideas from her
imagination.
7. Begins to √ As she interact
think about the with the world
world as it might around her, she
be, not just the way it is gain more
knowledge and
build upon existing
knowledge.
8. Can think √ She can think in
systematically terms of
about possible abstractions or
solutions to symbols, as well
a problem (scientific as being able to
reasoning) think about
multiple variables
or dimensions at
once.
9. Develop a √ She begins to
strong sense of right form a more
and wrong and distinct set of
make values and
decisions based on morals. She also
following learn that she is in
their conscience charge of her own
behaviors,
decisions, and
outcomes.
10. Use strategies to √ She applies
search for, use, and techniques in
compare information searching
from multiple sources information in
different
references.
11. Understand the √ She realizes the
consequences of consequences of
actions, not just their actions, and
today, but also in she will regret
about it. She
far reaching resolve it to avoid
ways (For example, such actions in the
understanding that future.
failing English isn’t
just a bummer — it can
mean summer
school, too.)
12. Write with √ She often
complexity about a develops idealistic
variety of views on specific
content areas (science, topics like
social studies, literature) science, social
studies, and
literature.
Score (Observed) 12
ANALYZE
Score (Observed) Interpretation
1-3 Suggest significant delay in development
4-6 Suggest average development
7-9 Suggest slightly advanced development
10-12 Suggest highly advanced development
Your interpretation:
The table above shows that the socio-emotional and cognitive
development of an adolescent are highly advanced development. The items
listed above are all observed. Her social developments are particularly notable as
showing more concern about body image, looks, and clothes, show more interest
in and influence by peer group, and strive to be independent. These are some
mostly seen in the social development of an adolescent. When it comes in
concerning about how she look physically, this may have a big impact in herself
as this is another form in gaining more self-esteem. Self-esteem influences how
you care for yourself emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Self-esteem refers to
your entire self, not just your physical appearance. When she reach the age of
adolescence, she tends to spend more time with her peers and less time with her
parents. Positive peer relationships are essential for healthy social emotional
development. She strive to be independent as this is an essential part of the
journey to adulthood. When she feel comfortable and secure, she is more willing
to try new things and learn about herselves and her goals.
Her cognitive developments shows that she is an abstract thinker. She get
the ability to actively engage in abstract thought. It entails considering broad
possibilities and contrasting reality with other things that may or may not have
significance. She have creative talents too. She tends to generate ideas from her
own imagination, maybe because she is fun of reading fantasy and fiction books,
which I did too when I was a teenager. She also become curious in politics,
religion, and sex. She thought on what are her stands about politics, and
becoming more knowledgeable about the different views about religion.
REFLECT
Write a reflection of the data you collected by following this formula:
Data interpretation + Comments + Implication (corroborating to the table +
literature review) = reflection
The table above shows that the socio-emotional and cognitive
development of an adolescent are highly advanced development. The items
listed above are all observed. Her social developments are particularly notable as
showing more concern about body image, looks, and clothes, show more interest
in and influence by peer group, and strive to be independent. These are some
mostly seen in the social development of an adolescent. When it comes in
concerning about how she look physically, this may have a big impact in herself
as this is another form in gaining more self-esteem. Self-esteem influences how
you care for yourself emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Self-esteem refers to
your entire self, not just your physical appearance. When she reach the age of
adolescence, she tends to spend more time with her peers and less time with her
parents. Positive peer relationships are essential for healthy socio-emotional
development. She strive to be independent as this is an essential part of the
journey to adulthood. When she feel comfortable and secure, she is more willing
to try new things and learn about herselves and her goals. Her cognitive
developments shows that she is an abstract thinker. She get the ability to actively
engage in abstract thought. It entails considering broad possibilities and
contrasting reality with other things that may or may not have significance. She
have creative talents too. She tends to generate ideas from her own imagination,
maybe because she is fun of reading fantasy and fiction books, which I did too
when I was a teenager. She also become curious in politics, religion, and sex.
She thought on what are her stands about politics, and becoming more
knowledgeable about the different views about religion.
My comments about the socio-emotional and cognitive development this
adolescent that I observed are much more similar on my age when I was a
teenager. This adolescent that I’ve been observing is my sister. Although this
observation is mostly seen, this may not observed in other adolescents. They
may not be the same as other thinks and act. I think it varies with the
environment they live in and how parents are guiding them.
One of the development of an adolescent in socio-emotional is they
establish a place in peer group. According to Larkin (1979), adolescents are in
the process of moving away from the closed environment of the parental home
where they are largely influenced by their immediate family to a social world
where they are among peers and have to begin to make independent choices.
Due to lack of experience they are often not sure about the lifestyle decisions
they should make (e.g., balancing their social and school lives, vocational
orientation). In need of support and direction they are likely to search for a place
among a group of peers by conforming to the group’s norms. On the other hand,
one of the development of an adolescent in cognitive is it can deal more with
abstract concepts. In the study of (Case, 1985; Fischer, 1980; Halford,1982), A
number of theorists have suggested that adolescents can operate at a new and
more abstract level of thought because they can integrate the results of two
different sorts of lower-order processing. This new intellectual potential emerging
in adolescence builds on the idea that children can progressively handle first one
new abstract element, then two, and then multiple abstract elements
simultaneously.
EVALUATING UNDERSTANDING
Just encircle the letter of your choice:
1. “Individuals are changing beings in a changing world”. Which
characteristic of development is reflected in this statement?
a) Development is multidisciplinary
b) Development is contextual
c) Development is elastic
d) Development is multicultural
2. Nowadays, parents are very cautious about the technology that
is being catered to their children especially in the area of
education. Most of them would emerge themselves on the ways
how their children learn. Thus, they justify the saying that “Age is
just a number”. What characteristic of life span development is
being emphasized in the statement above?
a) Development is multidimensional
b) Development is contextual
c) Development involves growth, maintenance,
and regulation
d) Development is plastic
3. Lying in bed you notice that you get cold every time your
brother opens the door. This is most closely associated with
which step in the scientific method?
a) Formulating hypothesis
b) Making an observation
c) Developing a test
d) Conclusion
4. Havighurst proposed that achievement of developmental tasks
leads to happiness and success with later tasks. Which of the
following best describes these tasks?
a) Infancy, adolescence, and early childhood
b) Mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem
c) Cohort effect, period effect, and agency
d) Sensorimotor, preoperational, and concrete operational
5. It refers to physical tasks that involve the large muscles, vis-à-
vis exerting much effort to perform such.
a) Fine motor skills
b) Gross motor skills
c) Psychomotor skills
d) Active skills
6. A young couple desperately arguing and screaming curse
words at each other in the presence of their 5-year old child.
Days after, the principal called their attention as their child had
been caught screaming curse words to his classmates in an
event. In terms of language development among pre schoolers,
such a situation is best described as “fast mapping”.
a) True, fast mapping happens when the child absorbs the
meaning of a word after hearing it from adults.
b) True, fast mapping happens when the child imitates
certain words he heard from adults.
c) Both a and b
d) None of these choices
7. A 5-year old child is getting aware of his/her abilities,
preferences over clothing, strengths, and weaknesses. What
concept best describes this phenomenon?
a) Gender typing
b) Self-concept
c) Seriation
d) None of these choices
8. In adolescent problems, how is does a withdrawn
underachiever differ from an aggressive underachiever?
a) The latter can be described as having a more pronounced
tendency to be passive, while the previous tend to be
talkative, if not disruptive, and rebellious.
b) The latter tend to be talkative, if not disruptive, and
rebellious, while the previous can be described as having
a more pronounced tendency to be passive.
c) The latter can be described as possessive, while the
previous tends to be talkative and rebellious.
d) None of these choices
9. What is the most accurate definition of the
puberty stage?
a) Rapid physical growth.
b) The stage when sexual maturation is attained.
c) The stage when adolescents establish identities separate
from their parents.
d) Both a and c
10. 15-year old Marie is preoccupied with her appearance and
seems depressed most of the time. What is the best thing her
parents can do to help her get through this difficult time?
a) Ignore her self-preoccupation because their attention
would only reinforce it.
b) Encourage to shape up and not give in to self-pity.
c) Kid her about her appearance in the hope that she will see
how silly she is acting.
d) Offer practical advice, such as clothing suggestions, to
improve her body image.
LEARNING EVIDENCE
Documentation (with label and brief description):
NAME: Lynette A. Ladaga
AGE: 15 years old
POINTS OF INQUIRY
Which part in the study and practice of human development is a “gray
area” for you?
Kindly investigate further by going through varied literature and sources.
For me, gender identity is the gray area of human development. Gender identity
is difficult to judge if it is right or wrong because I believe everyone has a right to
choose their identity whether having a sense of being male, female, both, neither, or
some other gender. According to American Psychological Association, gender identity
refers to a person’s internal sense of being male, female or something else; gender
expression refers to the way a person communicates gender identity to others through
behavior, clothing, hairstyles, voice or body characteristics. Some are still confused
about the difference of sex and gender. Sex is assigned at birth, refers to one’s
biological status as either male or female, and is associated primarily with physical
attributes such as chromosomes, hormone prevalence, and external and internal
anatomy. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and
attributes that a given society considers appropriate for boys and men or girls and
women. These influence the ways that people act, interact, and feel about themselves.
EPISODE 3
OBSERVE
The Eriksonian Observation allows you to see the translation
of Erikson‟s theory in a real-life scenario. The observation is guided
by questions that are patterned from the Psychosocial Development
theory (Cempron, 2021). Identify a specific learner. Critically and
carefully observe his/her behaviors using the Eriksonian guide
questions below:
Does the student trust easily?
Yes
If yes, why does s/he trust so easily? If no, why does s/he find it difficult
to trust people?
He trust easily because his teacher and the parents surrounding him is
caring and sensitive. They help him when he needs something. He has a
supportive environment and it makes him trust more when people are honest and
trustworthy.
Is s/he dominantly reckless or dominantly cautious?
He is dominantly cautious.
Either way, why do you think so?
He taught about his action if it results good or bad. He is attentive and
make proper decisions before he’ll do anything.
Does s/he have too much self-reservation?
Yes
Whether your answer is yes or no, please describe further.
One of the most important components of preserving your mental health is
to focus exclusively on yourself and do what you want to do for yourself. This is
what I thought to my brother, but not being too selfish.
How do you describe his/her sense of responsibility?
He is not much responsible when it comes to his homeworks and
household chores. Sometimes, his mother would even tell him to do what had to
be done. He will wait that her mother will tell him to do so.
If you are to generally look at your descriptions, is it too much or too
little?
This is too little because he’s still 12 years old and I know he has a lot
more to know and to fully develop. His skills, potentials and way being as an
adolescents. There’s much time to know as he will become adult. This is what I
observed in my younger brother, his small responsibility for now can be bigger as
he grows and develop.
Rate how far s/he knows him/herself (10 being the highest). Please
justify your rating.
I’ll rate him 7 out of 10. I think he doesn’t know more of himself because he
barely knows his abilities. He’s 12 now and he didn’t know what he really wanted
at all. His self-concept are not fully developed. All he knows is that he go to
school because this is what helps him to learn and saw other children go to
school too.
Does s/he easily get attached to people?
Yes
Whether your answer is yes or no, please describe further.
Yes he gets easily attached because he develop social skills and coping
strategies. He is friendly to anyone even though he still didn’t know that person.
Rate how serious s/he in terms of accomplishments (10 being the
highest), please justify your rating.
I’ll rate him 7 out of 10. As a student, one of the accomplishments is to
finished the homeworks and modules provided by their teacher. He is not really
serious on answering and lacks focus. Sometimes. he relies on my mother and
not having much effort to understand the assignment.
Does s/he think his/her generation is better compared to the past
generation?
Yes
Whether your answer is yes or no, please describe further.
His generation is better compared from last generation, it is because in
today’s generation technologies have been invented and it is much easier to
study compared from last generation wherein uses the traditional way of teaching.
Students are now easy to access their assignments in the internet, and they are
more motivated because they’re using a gadget.
ANALYZE
Critically examine your observations, decide if the personality of your
subject is dominantly maladaptive or malignant in the context of
Erikson‟s theory:
Based on my observation, he has a maladaptive personality as it involves
too much of the positive and too little of the negative. As answered above, he
easily trust to people and gets easily attached. In his age, he has nothing to
worry much because he enjoy his life, with his family and peers where he is
safe and belong. In this age, it is important for adolescents to have positive
attitudes towards oneself. A positive attitude toward oneself and life is
associated with optimism, which is associated with self-confidence, better
stress coping, and greater resilience. He is serious in his achievements
especially in his studies because good achievements makes his parents happy
and proud. Academic attainment is crucial during childhood and adolescence
because academic achievements and failures define an individual's future
academic career and work chances in today's society. That is what I have been
observed in the personality of my subject.
Triangulation
Interview your observation subject‟s parents or caregivers; ask
them what it was like raising your subject when s/he was an infant
and toddler? Carefully observe assess, and evaluate the style of
parenting his/her parents are projecting on them― authoritarian,
permissive, authoritative, or negligent?
∙ Authoritarian- too much restriction, too little affection
∙ Permissive- too much affection, too less restriction
∙ Authoritative- too much affection, too much restriction
∙ Negligent- no affection, no restriction
I ask the parents of my subject of what it was like raising their child
when he was and infant and toddler. Her answer is she was permissive
when her son is still a toddler. She told me that she was loving, caring and
careful. The mother’s style of raising her child is more relaxed, and
treating her child as a buddy. They have a little rules and they don’t
impose any form of punishment for wrong-doing. A toddler had mood
swings and tantrums, and parents should stay calm and show some
affection. If a mother gets angry, it’ll make the situation harder for both of
them. I believe that being permissive to a toddler is important factor for
them to gain trust and being safe. Being too strict can lead to negative
long-term effects for your child.
EVALUATING UNDERSTANDING
Just encircle the letter of your choice:
1. Which state of the psycho-sexual theory do young boys
experience rivalry with their father for their mother’s attention
and affection?
a) Oral stage
b) Anal stage
c) Latency stage
d) None of these choices
2. In L. Vygotsky’s socio-cultural learning theory, this concept
refers to the range of tasks that a child can perform without the
guidance of a significant other.
a) Zone of proximal development
b) Scaffolding
c) Latency stage
d) None of these choices
3. In J. Piaget’s cognitive development theory, when a child
tries to create his/her understanding about things, his cognition
is what Piaget referred to as:
a) Assimilation
b) Equilibration
c) Accommodation
d) None of these choices
4. When a person based his/her moral judgment according to
the dictate of his/her conscience regardless of how society
views it, what level of moral reasoning in L. Kohlberg‟s theory
has he/she deemed to have attained?
a) Conventional
b) Pre-conventional
c) Latency stage
d) None of these choices
5. Mrs. Nadelo, a senior public school teacher who has been in
the service for 40 years now, is being disliked by her younger
colleagues for always ranting about the present-day teachers
and how her generation was far better than the present ones. In
the context of E. Erikson‟s theory, she is supposed to manifest a
maladaptive behavior of “presumption”. What could be
the explanation for this?
a) Throughout her life, there is an imbalance between
maladaptation and malignancy
b) In her 40-year career, she had been too generative in
practicing the profession, vis-à-vis overextension
c) Both A and B
d) None of these choices
6. Which among the following scenarios is an example
mesosystem in Bronfenbrenner‟s Bio-ecological
system‟s model?
a) A 6-year old child carefully observes her parents
reacting to the government measures on pandemics
while watching the news.
b) A 6-year old child critically asking her parents why the
barangay is having a fiesta every year.
c) A 6-year old child is too engrossed in interacting with
the characters of the online game she is playing.
d) None of these choices.
7. In the middle of taking an exam in her Social Studies class,
upon surpassing quite a few questions Divine suddenly forgets
certain information that‟s going to help her in answering a
specific question, despite the engrossed studying she did last
night. Such forgetting scenario is an example of what Information
Processing Theory describes as:
a) Decay
b) Interference
c) Executive control processes
d) Retrieval
8. Based on Freud‟s theory, which operate/s when a
student strikes a classmate at the height of anger?
a) Ego
b) Id
c) Superego
d) Id and Ego interact
9. Mr. Francisco was very much worried about the thumb
sucking of his son. A friend of his says that certain behavior
among infants. Who presented the notion that certain behavior
like thumb-sucking is normal behavior?
a) Sigmund Freud
b) Erik Erikson
c) Lev Vygotsky
d) Urie Bronfenbrenner
10. Ms. Reyes uses images and language to represent and
understand her various lessons to preschool learners. What
stage in the cognitive development theory explains this?
a) Sensorimotor
b) Pre-operational
c) Concrete operation
d) Formal operation
LEARNING EVIDENCE
Documentation (with label and brief description):
SUBJECT SUBJECT’S MOTHER
NAME: Sam Lemuel A. Ladaga NAME: Marylor A. Ladaga
AGE: 12 years old AGE: 45 years old
POINTS OF INQUIRY
Which part in Erikson’s theory did you consider as the “unconscious spectrum” in the
development of a person’s self-concept? Kindly investigate further by going through
varied literature and sources.
The part wherein I consider as the “unconscious spectrum” in Erikson’s theory is
the Adolescents stage. I consider it because in this stage, adolescents explore their
independence and develop a sense of self. There is role confusion, and it needs to
be further develop. Adolescents are unsure of who they and where they fit. Roles
aren't only "out there." They also form a part of our identity, in the sense that we
identify with the positions we hold, the roles we play, and the organizations to
which we belong. By the time they reach high school, they have learnt that they are
distinct people who are capable of thinking about and analyzing their own behavior.
They also begin to be conscious of their social condition, seeing that others are
judging and looking at them in the same manner that they are judging and looking
at others. That is what I consider as the “unconscious spectrum” in Erikson’s
theory.
