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Third Trimester
Very anxious mother singing and talking to the baby in the womb. -
Birth Born in Tokyo, Japan
[Biosocial]
Height 50 cm 3200 g (average) Healthy Baby -
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Sensorimotor stage
No pacifier, but very attached to breast -
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Years of Secure Attachment
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Learning Object Permanence
[Cognitive]
Loved Peek-a-boo -
Trust versus mistrust
[Psychosocial]
Erickson's first psychosocial crisis. Infants learn basic trust if the world is a secure place where their basic needs for food, comfort, attention etc. are met. -
Preoprational stage
[Cognitive]
Loved Pretend Play [Biosocial]
Walking a lot! -
Autonomy versus shame and doubt
[Psychosocial]
Erickson's second crisis of psychosocial development. Toddlers either succeed or fail in gaining a sense of self-rule over their own actions and bodies. -
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Preoperational intelligence
[Cognitive]
Piaget: Beyond senses and motor skills to include language and imagination. [Biosocial]
Loved singing, playing with piano -
Brother Born. Sibling Rivalry begins
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Initiative vs Guilt
[Psychosocial]
Erikson's third psychosocial crisis. Children begin new activities and feel guilty when they fail. -
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Kindergarten Years (Japan)
Instrinc motivation -
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Concrete opereational thought
Piaget's term for the ability to reason logically about direct experiences and perceptions. -
Elementary School begins
[Biosocial]
Happy middle. Height & weight were always around 50 percentaile. [Cognitive]
The school cut off in Japan is April 1st. So I was always one of the oldest in the class and thus, did very well academiccally especially in early years.
Had various classes. Kumon, tennis, piano and gymnastic. Parents let me experience anything I was interested [Psychosocial]
Shyness has gone as soon as stepped into school
Loved school and friends -
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School Year (Elementary School in Japan)
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Period of Concrete Operations
Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development -
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Middle School (Japan)
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Adolescence
Piaget: Period of Concrete Operations
Erikson: Identity VS Role Confusion
Kohlberg:RESPONSIBILITY TO "THE SYSTEM (stage 4) [Biosocial]
Having an acne problem
Body became rounder
Eat junk food during PMS [Cognitive]
Loved learning foreign languages (English and German)
Deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning
[Psychosocial]
Peer selection & Peer pressure
Very emotionally independent, did not share problems with parents -
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High School (Japan)
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Emerging Adulthood
[Biosocial]
Height growth stopped
Playing tennis [Cognitive]
Loved reading books
Young and lots of imagination and dreams [Psychosocial]
Lots of life changes in this period.
Going to college, getting a job, living alone, marrying, moving to US. -
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College (Japan)
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Young Adulhhood
Erikson: Intimacy vs. Isolation.... Adults seek someone with whom to share their lives in an enduring and self-sacrificing commitment. Without such commitment, theiy risk profound aloneness and isolation. [Biosocial]
Started to gain weight after moving to US in 2000.
[Cognitive]
Started to speak in a foreign language (English) mainly since moved to US in 2000. [Psychosocial]
Married and happy to be "settled down" and felt security.
New life in US. -
Landing the first Job
Moved out parents' house and getting my own place
[Biosocial]
Excitement and stress for new life caused adult acne [Cognitive]
Lots of learning at work [Psychosocial Development]
Workers don't change job much and work at the same place till retire in Japan. Thus workplace is like home. -
Married
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Moved to US (Los Angeles, CA)
Living overseas for the first time! -
First Child Born
It's a boy! -
Second Child Born
It's a girl! -
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Middle Adulthood
[Cognitive]
Erikson: Generativity vs. Self absorption or Stagnation
Paul and Margaret Baltes: Selective Optimization [Biosocial]
Body shape started to change. Not gainning much weight, but many parts of the body can not win against gravity.
Can't go out without makeup.
[Psychosocial]
Generativity: Becoming a mother
The communities involved expand as children grow bigger -
Menopose
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Late Adulthood
Erikson:Integrity vs. Despair.....The final stage of Erikson's developmental sequence, in which older adults seek to integrate their unique experiences with their vision of community. [Biosocial]
Driving a car getting harder
[Cognitive]
Forgetfulness
[Psycosocial]
Feel sad as deceased family members and friends increase each year
Coping with retirement -
Selective Optimization with compensation
Individuals can set goals, assess their own abilities, and figure out how to acompish what they want to achieve despite the limitation and declines of later life. -
Crystallized Intelligence & Fluid Intelligence
Crystallized Intelligence: The types of intellectual ability that reflect accumulated learning such as vocabulary and general information. Some developmental psychologists think crystallized intelligence increases with age, while fluid intelligence declines. Fluid Intelligence: The types of basic intelligence that make learning of all sorts quick and thorough. Abilities such as short term memory, abstract thought, and speed of thinking are all usually considered part of fluid intelligence. -
Death
Wishing my death is unexpected and sudden. I don't want to go through Kubler-Ross's five stage. I am fearful to go through those emotinal stages.
