Student+costumes

Costume: Paris Hilton Life Stage: Preoperational (2 to 7 years) Vocab Term: Egocentrism Explanation: If you dress up like Paris Hilton, you may become self centered and egotistical like Paris Hilton has been described as being. Paris Hilton displays egocentrism by only thinking of herself and does not care about anyone but herself.

 Gandi fits under Kohlberg’s moral development of stage of post-conventional, social contract. Gandi saw beyond the law, in that everyone deserves equal rights as people. He had no problem acting out against an oppressive government, even if it was against the law. He did what was universally right. He was not bound by the rule book.
 * The Man with No Laws **

 Costume: Cupid life stage: Intimacy vs Isolation Young adult, 19-40 Cupid is in this stage because he is a matchmaker in love but he himself does not have true love. He is isolated and lonely without anyone to love. He shoots people with his arrows so they fall in love.

 Costume: Understanding Judge Life Stage: Preoperational Stage 2-7 years old Near the end of the Preoperational Stage, children develop Theory of Mind. Theory of Mind is understanding other people’s points of view. A judge has to understand other’s views and feelings to be successful in their job.

Costume Name: Dictator Dad

Concept: Authoritarian Parenting Explanation: Dress up as Hitler or any dictator and take along a younger sibling or a child off the street. When doing this you can feel like an authoritarian parent and act as you have complete control over the child's actions for the night. While wearing this you can have the complete control over them but not have to feel anything towards them. While wearing this you get the experience of being a dictator without the experience of having a child.

Costume Name: The Dictator Concept: Parenting Styles (Authoritarian Parents) Explanation: Authoritarian parents are like dictators.They have a low level of responsiveness and very high expectations.

Couple Costume Name: Hot & Cold

The one half of the costume is Authoritarian {//Judge Judy//} and the other half is permissive {//bear}//. The authoritarian side is holding a gavel to show that they are dictator-like and demanding. The teddy bear costume shows love to the child but doesn’t have any expectations for the child.



 Costume name: Dora The Explorer Life Stage: Preschool 3-5 years "//Initiative v. Guilt" - Erikson// Explanation: Like Dora, children need to explore with their own ideas. After an exploration, Dora always sings the catchy tune “We Did It!”. This song lets Dora express her feelings of accomplishment after a big mission. Children also have feelings of accomplishment when they succeed. Definition: Children need to begin asserting control and power over the environment. Success in this stage leads to a sense of purpose. Children who try to exert too much power experience disapproval, resulting in a sense of guilt.

The Riddler exemplifies confusion, as he continuously asks riddles to his victims. Teens from 12-18 face Identity vs. Role Confusion. This is the s//t//age {//according to Erikson}// in which they are confused about who they are and what they want in life. Teens need to develop a sense of self and personal identity. If teens cannot accomplish their formal identity they can become confused about who they are. The riddles are actually everyday problems that teens face that question who they are, and what they stand for.



Costume Name: PUPPY POWER

Life Stage Conventional: In Kohlberg’s stages of moral development, the age group of 9-20 years old begin to value what others will think of their actions.

Explanation: The laws are for the good of the society and not just to avoid punishment. The Puppy Power costume shows Conventional moral development, because Superman enforces the law and makes sure everyone obeys the rules for the common good of society.

 __Term:__ sensor//im//otor (stranger anxiety); //Piaget// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Costume:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Kangaroo with baby in pouch <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Description:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in sensory motor stage, stranger anxiety is a dominant feature. Children are afraid of strangers and cling to parents as a baby kangaroo clings to their mother in pouch. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> __Image: Kangaroo costume__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sherlock Holmes //Piaget's// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Formal Operational Stage - Ages 11 and up Like Sherlock Holmes, when you are in the formal operational stage, you are able to use deductive reasoning, logic, and hypothetical thinking. Using these higher level methods of thinking, you will be able to solve crimes committed by the mastermind criminal Moriarty!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Costume 1: Robin Hood <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Life Stage: Middle Adulthood Generativity vs. Stragnation Concept: According to Erik Erikson adults in this stage need to feel that they have created something or nurtured something that will outlast them, by benefiting others and having children. When this is accomplished one feels useful. When one does not achieve this they are left feeling stuck in a life they do not what or unimportant to the world.The costume Robin Hood relates to this because he spent his life helping the poor, giving him a feeling of usefulness or generativity.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Costume:Robot Life stage: Sensorimotor Explanation: Be a Robot! Though only capable of basic motor actions like crawling and walking, you will begin to imitate the things around you! You can use your senses but beware of putting things in your mouth! You may begin to experience habituation as a robot as you become used to the stimulus’s around you but as a robot, you don’t wanna be too far away from your owner when going to retrieve candy for you may experience some stranger anxiety, even though your owners might just be around the corner, robots have no sense of object permanence so you can’t distinguish whether they are even in existence any longer. beep beep. Be a robot!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Costume: Mr. Lazy <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Concept: Neglectful parenting Selling Point: Neglectful parents care little about their children. They are not very responsible and do not demand much. Mr. Lazy does not really care what happens, he’s just along for the ride.

//__CAUTION - this next costume could be offensive to some; it was meant as pure humor!__//
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Costume: Lost Puppy Life Stage: Alzheimer’s Selling Point: Be this old lady with Alzheimer’s! She can’t remember where she put her dog. Oops! There it is!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Costume Name: Thomas Jefferson <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Life Stage: Kohlberg’s Postconventional Stage (Social Contract) Selling Point: Dress up like Thomas Jefferson and show your support for Social Contract! Social Contract is the belief that people all over the world deserve certain basic rights like life, liberty, and freedom. (Just like Thomas Jefferson wrote about in the Declaration of Independence.) Kohlberg believed not many people reached this stage in morality, so there are a limited amount of costumes available. Act fast, before the costumes run out!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Animism: Animism is in the Preoperational stage of Jean Piaget's cognitive stages of development! Animism is giving an inanimate object feelings. Jessie is a cowgirl doll in the animated movie Toy Story. This costume is for children ages 2-7 years old.

Dress like your favorite Toy Story Doll, Jessie! Experience how it feels to be a great cowgirl with a cool red hat.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Costume Name: Facebook

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Life Stage: Erikson’s social stage of “Identity vs. Role Confusion” <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Selling point/explanation (define and apply stage to costume): Have you ever felt like you need to develop a sense of self and personal identity and make more social relationships? Then Facebook is just the costume for you. Show off how social you are and what you “like” with this fun costume idea.



<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Costume Name: Bird’s eye view Concept: Theory of mind Explanation: This concept occurs at the end of Piaget’s Preoperational stage. Theory of mind is the ability to understand another’s point of view. In the bird’s eye view costume, you can view things from above, as if you were a bird!



<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Costume name: Egocentrism Costume Life stage: Piaget’s preoperational stage Selling point: Wear this costume if you, like a child, think the world revolves around you.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Costume Name: Waldo <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Costume <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> LIfe Stage: Piaget’s Sensorimotor; Object Permanence <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Selling Point: Object permanence is when an object/person is present even when covered.Dress up like Waldo so you can be invisible in plain sight.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">OR <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jean Piaget’s Sensorimotor Cognitive Stage of development: object permanence <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ‘Where’s Waldo’ relates to Jean Piaget’s concept of object permanence because he is still present even when he is covered or hidden**. Even though Waldo is not visible to everyone, people who have acquired object permanence will be able to understand that Waldo is still there.**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Topic: Integrity vs. Despair, //Erikson// Costume: Dumbledore Explanation: When Dumbledore was about to die, he looked back on his life and realized the mistakes he made. he felt despair about the fate of his sister when he dueled his friend and she died.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Costume: Octomom Concept/Vocab Word: Social Clock Explanation: Octomom felt the social pressure from people due to the expected timeline of life events that people are expected to go through, so even though she had kids already, she felt the need to have more.... 8 more. OR <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vocab Word: Fraternal Twins Explanation: When more than one egg is fertilized it produces fraternal twins and the Octa-Mom had multiple eggs fertilized at one time and gave birth to eight kids. This costume shows the Octa-Mom with her eight children. (And her huge lips!)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Authoritarian Parents Angry Birds Costume Authoritarian Parenting is one of the 3 parenting styles by Diana Baumrind. Selling Point: These costumes give a fun edge to a not so fun parenting style. These angry birds have high demands and expectations but low responsiveness or warmth. You better give them lots of candy!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Costume Name: Perfect Match Life Stage: Young Adult, Intimacy Selling Point: Intimacy is when a person finds their perfect match. Peanut Butter and Jelly were made to go together. You and your significant other can put these on and prove to everyone how perfect you are for each other!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 32px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Costume Name: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 32px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sweet Pea

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Animism__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Animism is giving inanimate objects human like traits. This is in Piaget’s Pre-Operational stage in the Cognitive map of development.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Selling Point: This person is dressed up as a pea pod which is an inanimate object. This shows animism because a pea can not walk around and talk unlike humans. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Costume: Follow da momma Concept: The process by which animals form attachments during the critical period very early in life. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vocab Term: Imprinting, //Konrad Lorenz//  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explanation: The babies dressed up in the duckling costumes are following the mother dressed up in the duck costume.