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Birth (0)
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Age Time Line
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Infancy (0-2)
Physical Development - Grasping reflex, where when the palms are touched they grasp tightly, this fades after 3 months.
Rooting Reflex - When cheek is brushed , turns head and opens mouth and starts sucking, helps baby survive. Disappears after around a year.
Babinski Reflex - curl toes in and pull away. Babies do the opposite of this. Disappears by age 2.
Moro Reflex - Infant started by loud noise will spread arms and grasp upwards along with legs. Disappears around 6 months. -
Childhood ( 3-11 )
Piaget - Child becomes Preoperational ages 2-6 and uses symbols as objects but dont reason logically. Ages 7-12 the child bcomes concrete operational and can think logically about concrete objects, udnerstands conservation.
Erikson - Child learns Autonomy vs. Shame and doubt. Initiative vs. Guilt. Industry vs. Inferiority.
Kohlberg - Intrumental relativist, good boy/ nice girl.
Freud - Anal stage where pelasure spots change, phallic stage is on genitals, latency - sex thoughts repressed . -
First car + License! (16-18)
When you get your first car it is a great responsibility. you have to make deals with your parents and probably argue alot with them about it and this buidls your character as a person all because of having a car . Having a car adds alot more social accessability as well to your teenage years. Opens doors to job opportunities as well. -
Adolescence ( 12- 22)
Formal operational. Can think abstractly and imagine an ideal world. Can think hypothetically. Egocentric. Suffer from personal fable and feeling of vulnerability. Indecisiveness because they are aware of multiple options hard to make up the mind. Argue a lot more to learn social skills. Identity formation is a key part of adolescents. Some suffer decliens in self esteem, possibly even suicide. -
First long relationship(20-25)
By having to care for someone else above your own needs, you learn to care for others and put others above yourself and become less egocentric. -
First real job (25)
When you get your first real job that is on a steady career path for what you want to do with your life. You have made a huge step in your journey through life. By making money and working, being depended on by your company, you are becoming quite busy and this is good for maturing. -
Early Adulthood ( 23-29 )
Usually lots of character building and busy work throughout these years. Not a complete adult because the individual is not settled down yet and has not experienced or moved past the transition of age 30. also has no kids usually and not married. This age group may have not yet put another before themselves which is a big
step between young adult to old adult.
After first child marital satisfactions declines. -
Middle Adulthood ( 30-35 )
Identity comes from career for a male. Womens identity coems from their children. Thsi stage has a higher chance of having a child. which progresses the adult deeper into maturity. Men at age 30 go through a crisis where they restructure their commitments. They get past it after about 5 years. -
First House (35)
First house really marks a point where you feel secure enough financially that you can afford to have your own place. By having your own place you are able to work on taxes and are mature enough to handle those finances. Also you can work on settling down with a significant other. -
First Child! (40)
After your first child you really become caring for your child and you do everything for that child to survive. Caring for the child is your top priority and you put your wants on hold for the child you brought into this world. This develops alot of maturity. -
Late Adulthood (36-64)
Men start settling down around 36-40. At 40 men usually wonder what they are contributing to society. Women at age 40 enter new opportunites. At age 50 women with children have their last child leave and they experience empty nest syndrome. Since their kids are gone they do not know what to do but contact their kids and start new projects with all the time they have. At age 65 most people retire. Also they lose most independence.
Merital satisfaction returns after last child leaves. -
Reflecting on your life (65)
By reflecting on your life's decisions and letting go and jsut remembering the good times, you are allowing yourself an easy way to the next step of life. Accepting death is a good thing. If you are mature enough to be able to accept death then you have passed a great milestone. -
Old Age (66-XX)
Independence declines. Gradual loss of control. Lose friends, family, home. Become more susceptible to illnesses other than common cold. Body deteriorates at a much higher rate than late adult hood. Loss of identity and social structure. Integrity vs. despair. Alzheimer's begins aroudn the 80s. Alzheimer's makes you forget and your brain deteriorates some parts of your brain. -
Stages of Death and Dying(100)
Denial - This cant be happening to me, doctor mustt be wrong.
Anger - toward fate, doctors, powers that be, family members.
Bargaining - attempting to strike a deal with a higher power for time in exchange for behavior.
Depression - focus on losses being incurred.
Acceptance - release to stress, calm peace.
