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Experiencing the world through senses and actions.
-Object Permanance
-Stranger anxiety
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Learning whether to trust or not to based on whether or not their needs for things like food and comfort are met
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- From birth- 9yrs -Childrens morality focuses on self interest: They obey rules either to avoid punishment or to gain concrete rewards.
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2 months
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2.8 Months
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4 months
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5.5 months
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-Easy Infants--Adaptable to new situations,predictability in their schedule,positive in their mood
-Difficult-Intense in their reactions, not very adaptable
-Slow to warm up Infants-Initially withdraw when approached, but later may warm, slow to adapt to new situations
-Average Infants-Did not fit into any of the above categories -
7.6 months
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9.2
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10 months
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11.5 Months
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-Normally around 1 year old children either experience secure or insecure attachment
-insecure--the child avoids the caregiver, and showing little emotion when the caregiver departs or returns
-secure--children who show some distress when their caregiver leaves but are able to compose themselves and do something knowing that their caregiver will return -
Toddlers realize they can direct their own behavior.
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-Representing things with words and images; using intuitive rather than logical reasoning.
-Playing Pretend
-Egocentrism -
Children are developing imagination, and sharing. They have to learn to control their behavior and take responsibility.
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Children try to learn new skills, obtain new knowledge
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Thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arithmetical operations.
-Conservation
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-Early Adolescense
--morality focuses on caring for others and on upholding laws and social rules, simply because they are laws and rules -
-First menstrual period
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12-Adulthood
-Abstract reasoning
-abstract logic
-Potential for mature moral reasoning -
Girls:
-Menustration
-developing of breasts
-hips
-body hair Boys:
-body hair
-deepening of voice
-spermarche -
Trying to learn who they are as a person.
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-Actions are judged to be right or wrong based on someone'sself defined, basic ethical principles.
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-the first time a male produces sperm
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Trying to form a close, committed relationship.
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-Average age of women getting married is 25 years old.
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-In the US the average age for a woman to have her first child is 25.8 years old
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-decline starting in early adulthood
-muscle strength declines
-senses decreases -
-menopause
-decline in fertility
-gradual decline in sperm count
-eyesight and hearing decease -
The challenge is to be creative, productive, and give back to the next generation.
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-The average age for a midlife transition is 45
-Discontentment or boredom with life or with the lifestyle (including people and things) that have provided fulfillment for a long time
-Self-questioning -
-The time of natural cessation of menusration; also refers to biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines.
-Normally happens around the age of 50 -
-Alzheimer’s disease-progressive mental deterioration that can occur in middle or old age, due to generalized degeneration of the brain
-Dementia-a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning.
-crystalized knowledge-accumulated knowledge such as vocabulary INCREASES
-Fluid- decreaes with age, decrease in reasoning with abstract approaches -
-brain neurons die
-memory declines
-senses decline -
60s and up
-The person is trying to reach wisdom, tranquility, wholeness, and acceptance. -
-men:68
-women:73