Susie Hanover by

Susie Hanover

tco11ier — 2023-10-27 12:22:43 UTC

7-year-old, Susie Hanover, struggles with making friends and has been held back by her home life (Wood et al., 2014).

School life

ljones0808_ — 2023-10-27 12:25:28 UTC

She has trouble in school and tends to not be able to remember what she's learned by the end of the day. She is bossy and aggressive towards her peers and struggles making friends despite wanting them.

(Wood et al., 2014)

Home Life

tco11ier — 2023-10-27 12:26:20 UTC

She cooks and puts herself to sleep every night.

Her dad has been absent since he left 2 years ago and does not have contact with the family (a lot of fighting led up to it)
Suzie hits her sisters after her mother gives her spankings for misbehaving.
(Wood et al., 2014)

Sensation

ljones0808_ — 2023-10-27 12:32:06 UTC

Sensation

-Susie is very sensitive to loud sounds and bright lights, and tends to only enjoy quiet, soothing music.

(Wood et al., 2014)

Perception

ljones0808_ — 2023-10-27 12:36:12 UTC

-Susie's mother admits to being neglectful towards Susie and her sisters. She has a false sense of reality and considers her teacher "mean" for telling her what to do and giving consequences.

(Wood et al., 2014)

Behavior

tco11ier — 2023-10-27 12:36:44 UTC

Susie misbehaves at school and at home quite often because her mom's spanking normally triggers her to act out on others. She has difficulty making friends due to this.

(Wood et al., 2014)

Sensation

ljones0808_ — 2023-10-27 12:37:27 UTC

-Susie cries when she smells her dads cologne. He left when she was very young and this is decreasing over time.

(Wood et al., 2014)

Brain

adyer1214_ — 2023-10-27 12:46:00 UTC

Brain

-Susie suffered from a grand mal seizure at the age of 4.

-After the seizure Susie had involuntary muscle movements in her hand on the left side.

-She had trouble walking after the seizure but walks fine now.

-She is sensitive to loud noises and bright lights.

-She has nightmares sometimes.

-She likes when quiet, soothing music is played.

(Wood et al., 2014)

References

tco11ier — 2023-11-03 12:08:30 UTC

Lee, J., Marshall, A. D., & Feinberg, M. E. (2022). Parent‐to‐child aggression, intimate partner aggression, conflict resolution, and children’s social–emotional competence in early childhood. Family Process, 61(2), 823–840. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12701

Wood, S., Wood, E., & Boyd, D. (2014). Mastering the World of Psychology. Pearson.

Zhang, A., Marshall, R., Kelsberg, G., Safranek, S., & Neher, J. (2017). What effects—if any—does marijuana use during pregnancy have on the fetus or child? Journal of Family Practice, 66(7), 462–466.

How this case relates to classical conditioning:

ljones0808_ — 2023-11-03 12:14:33 UTC

Whenever Suzie smells the cologne her dad wore, it causes her to think of him and get emotional
Suzie's mom was very neglectful of her children, and spanked Suzie. This causes Suzie to be violent towards her mother, siblings, and peers.
(Wood et al., 2014)

Operant conditioning

adyer1214_ — 2023-11-03 12:15:42 UTC

Operant conditioning relates to Susie's story because when Susie was in school, her teacher would give her stickers to reward her good behavior. This is an example of operant conditioning because the teacher gave positive reinforcement to Susie.
(Wood et al., 2014)

Creativity

adyer1214_ — 2023-11-09 21:15:51 UTC

Creativity relates to this case study because Susie both failed and succeeded with having it.

Failing Example: Susie's teacher said that she had difficulty with understanding abstract reasoning which is a type of creativity.
Successful Example: Susie's phycologist said that she is imaginative which plays an important role in creativity.

(Wood et al., 2014)

Creativity process theorists

adyer1214_ — 2023-11-09 21:39:34 UTC

Goleman, Kaufman, and Ray found that there are four stages in the creative problem-solving process.

preparation
incubation
illumination
translation

These four stages are the process of our creativity.

(Wood et al., 2014)

Thinking and IQ

ljones0808_ — 2023-11-10 19:10:35 UTC

Thinking and IQ relate to this case because Susie seems like she is a very smart child but has a hard time applying it.

Susie has math at the beginning of the day and does well, but by the end of the day she can't remember what she learned.
Susie can point out the correct answer when given choices but cannot come up with that correct answer on her own.
- (Wood et al., 2014)

Wilkonson's theory on the effects of a good relationship with parents.

ljones0808_ — 2023-11-17 13:31:31 UTC

Wilkinson's theory states that good relationships with parents are important to the development of self-esteem in adolescence.

(Wood et al., 2014)

This relates to our case specifically because Suzie did not have a good relationship with her parents, her dad left when she was young, and her mom was not there for her as a child and in a way abused her. This contributed to proving this theory because she did not have a high self-esteem and found getting along with her peers and family difficult.

Motivation

adyer1214_ — 2023-11-22 13:14:42 UTC

Motivation is all the processes that initiate, direct, and sustain behavior.
Psychologists consider motivation to have three components: activation, persistence, and intensity.
Researchers can further their understanding of motivation while working from a precise definition of the term motive, a concept that is narrower than the full scope of motivation itself.
(Wood et al., 2014)

Izard's theory of emotion

ljones0808_ — 2023-11-22 13:14:56 UTC

Izard's 1977 theory of emotion identifies 10 emotions: fear, anger, shame, contempt, disgust, guilt, distress, interest, joy, and surprise. He developed his first set of ''discrete" emotion expression stimuli during this period and made individual differences in the recognition and labeling of discrete emotions a variable of interest by relating it to social and behavioral functioning. Suzie is familiar with these emotions and has a difficult time knowing what to do when she feels them. For example, she takes her anger out on other people and cries just at the smell of her dad's cologne.

Emotion

adyer1214_ — 2023-11-22 13:23:06 UTC

Psychologists define emotion as a state involving physiological arousal, a cognitive appraisal of the stimulus that brought about the state, and an outward behavior expressing the state.
Psychologists have studied emotion in terms of three components: physical, cognitive, and behavioral.
Some researchers insist that there is only a limited number of basic emotions.
(Wood et al., 2014)

Personality

ljones0808_ — 2023-11-22 13:31:12 UTC

Personality is a person's characteristic patterns of behaving, thinking, and feeling.
The five broad personality traits described by the five-factor model are extroversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
Personality embraces moods, attitudes, and opinions and is most clearly expressed in interactions with other people.
- (Wood et al., 2014)

Social thinking

ljones0808_ — 2023-11-30 13:05:46 UTC

Social thinking refers to the process we go through in our minds as we try to make sense of our own, and others thoughts and feelings when interacting in a group.
Social thinking occurs when we consider the context of what's going on around us (who we are with, where we are)
There are many different types of social thinking, some examples include ADHD, sensory processing, reading comprehension and perspective talking.
(Wood et al., 2014)

Social Influence

adyer1214_ — 2023-11-30 13:16:31 UTC

Social Influence is how an individual adjusts their ways to meet the demands of a social environment.

Performing with social influence:

The term social facilitation refers to any effect on performance, whether negative or positive, that can be attributed to the presence of others.
The term social loafing refers to people's tendency to put forth less effort when working with others on a common task than they do when they are working alone.
(Wood et al., 2014)

Conclusion

ljones0808_ — 2023-12-07 13:03:48 UTC

In conclusion, Susie struggled a lot throughout her childhood. She experienced abusive tendencies from her mother which created issues that followed her into other aspects of her life such as school, making friends, and the way she treats her teachers. Despite this, Susie is smart and creative, when she applies herself at school she does well.