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Based on the information we gathered, Suzie's behavior stems from substance abuse during her mother's pregnancy with her. Substance abuse during pregnancy could have affected Suzie during fetal development that interfered with Suzie's ability to encode her work properly as well as her ability to process emotions. The absence of her father and the negligence of her mother also aided in Suzie's emotional behavior.

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A wide range of mental illness are attributed with biological, genetic, or birth defects. Whether it be low birth weight, exposure to drugs, or an injury there is a possibility for neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism or neurocognitive disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. A chain of even could occur from biological defects in where the individual could experience health issues such as seizures and that in itself could impact the brains chemical balance and causing mood imbalances (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019).

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Based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, she is low on the pyramid and lacks security, love, and belonging. This is why she enjoys getting stickers for doing her work, this makes her happy because she is getting the recognition she lacks from her home, this is her motive (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019).

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Personality refers to the consistency in who you are, have been, and will become. It also refers to the special blend of talent, values, hopes, loves, hates, and habits that make each of us a unique person. (Shultz and Shultz, 2017) Personality traits are inferred from behavior (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019).

Suzie should be categorized as having an extrovert personality. She may have low self esteem due to her being a bully among a group of friends. One who has low self esteem is insecure, lacking in confidence, and self-critical. Her low self-esteem could cause her to have test anxiety (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019).

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According to Huzink, studies have shown that substance use during pregnancy can cause "stress during fetal development may have enduring effects on offspring behavior" (Huizink, 2012).

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Susie's dad left the family and she cries when she smells his cologne and this concept from her case relates to the attribution theory. The theory predicts that you are most likely to "love" someone who gets you emotionally stirred up. In this case, Susie may be feeling some type of rejection as the the theory states also because she does not feel wanted by her dad and feels empty that she does not have the love of her dad in the household (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019).

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The article states that children who have been victims of domestic violence and neglect, experience a learning situation regarding past experiences. This causes behavioral changes that impact the lives of the individual.
Susie was spanked by her mother (domestic violence) and later on she spanks her siblings. Her father left the family (neglect). (Assed et al., 2019).

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*Environment (“nurture”)  refers to the sum of all external conditions that affect the developing child or   intrauterine.

* Environmental factors can interfere with pregnancy such as excess stress, poor health, or poor nutrition.

*Some drugs and substances can affect a developing fetus resulting in congenital problems or birth defects.

*Heavy smokers risk miscarrying or having premature babies. Furthermore children of smoking mothers score lower on tests of language and mental ability (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019)

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Susie's mother gave her spankings for her bad behavior but as a result, Susie began hitting her sisters and became aggressive to her peers at school. This is also an example of vicarious classical conditioning (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019)

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Gestalt Psychology
proposed that like a melody, many experiences cannot be broken into smaller units (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019)

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Susie struggles with encoding her work properly and is having a difficult time in school. Encoding refers to forming memories such as schoolwork or other important information. So, when Susie is taking a quiz and cannot remember the answer it has to do with her failure to encode. If her teachers were to implement retrieval strategies it could make an impact on her education (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019)

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Susie hasn't seen her father In 2 years. She cries when she smells the cologne that he wore. Her reaction is decreasing over time. She is experiencing the Decay Theory because the memory of her father is fading away. (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019)

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Susie has difficulty labeling emotions and often looks to others to see what emotion she should display. She is experiencing vicarious classical conditioning. She tends feel the same way as other people are feeling which she has trouble with experiencing her own individual feelings towards anything (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019)

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Perceptual expectancy prepares a person to perceive things in a certain way. Past experience, motives, context, suggestions, even sensations can lead us to expect certain results. You can see this in Susie’s case. For instance, her father’s cologne and her hunger pains. In the first when she smells her father's cologne, she expects to see him there and is disappointed when he is not. In the second example she expects to be hungry later in the day. She does not expect to come home to food, so she takes her classmates (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019)

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According to Susie’s mom, she suffered from involuntary muscle movements in her left side after a grand mal seizure at the age of four. The seizure that Suzie experienced stimulated the primary motor area, that directs body’s muscles, of the frontal lobes, which control movements, and caused the twitching of her left hand. Also, it is easy to assume that the seizure affected the right cerebral hemisphere because the right hemisphere controls the left side of the body. An Electroencephalograph (EEG) would have been able to detect such activities in Suzie’s brain (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019)

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1. Although our sensitivity is an innate characteristic of the nervous system and is also influenced by experiences early in life (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019)

2. Pain control and gate control theory. Susan's mother used to spank her because of her behavior. Susan's counterirritation caused an ignorance to pain. Enduring pain can reduce anxiety (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019)

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Assed, M. M., Khafif, T. C., Belizario, G. O., Fatorelli, R., Rocca, C. C., & De Pádua Serafim, A. (2019). Facial        emotion recognition in maltreated children: A systematic review. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29(5), 1493-1509. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-019-01636-w

Coon, D., Mitterer, J.O., & Martini, T.S. (2019). Introduction to psychology: Gateways to mind and behavior (15th ed.). Cengage Learning.

Huizink, A. C. (2012). Prenatal substance use, prenatal stress, and offspring behavioral outcomes: Considerations for future studies. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 66(2), 115–122. https://doi.org/10.3109/08039488.2011.641586

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Susie Hanover is a 7-year-old girl who has two sisters, one older and one younger. She appears to have behavioral problems that could be results from her mother smoking marijuana during pregnancy or the absence of her father. The reason we chose this case study was because it is intriguing how kids process emotions and the effect that cause these emotions. Also, we would like to research the common use of marijuana and during pregnancy how it could affect children growing up. We believe that the absence of her father could be a reason she has such of a behavior problem. Susie also has difficulties thinking on her own and that’s shown based on test she takes and the impact she has on other students.