“My Virtual Life”
Virtual Child Simulation (VC): Infants and Toddlers
Assignment 1: (Total 65 points)
Please advance your MVL child simulation to 30 months. Print out these questions and be answering as you go
along. You should have these questions answered by the time you finish age 30 months. This writing
assignment is due by end of week 5.
Answer the following questions as they relate to your “MVL” child simulation you have been experiencing.
General guidelines: a good answer will address every part of the question, and will describe the child’s behavior
and provide 1 or 2 supporting examples. In addition, wherever possible, you should relate your descriptions and
explanations of the child’s behavior to the concepts, theories and research covered in your textbook, class
discussions and other assignments. Please avoid expressing an unfounded opinion – try to base your arguments
on research studies and conclusions, or a theory that seems well supported by the research in the field. The
questions are printed below along with a scoring rubric for how you will be graded.
1. Set 1: 9 months. (20 points)
a. How does your baby’s eating, sleeping and motor development compare to the typical
developmental patterns in the first 9 months? —5 points for describing VC’s behavior in each of
two domains and referring to what might be expected at these ages. (5 points)
b. At 8 months of age was your child an “easy”, “slow to warm up”, or “difficult” baby in terms of
Thomas and Chess’s classic temperamental categories? On what do you base this judgment? —2
