Development

  • Fertilization

    Fertilization
    1 week
  • Conceptus

    Conceptus
    1 week
  • Zygote

    Zygote
  • Conceptus

    Conceptus
    2 week
  • Embryo

    Embryo
    3 week
  • Embryo

    Embryo
    4 week
  • Embryo

    Embryo
    5 week
  • Embryo

    Embryo
    6 week
  • Birth

    Birth
  • Embryo

    Embryo
    7 week
  • Embryo

    Embryo
    8 week
  • Fetus

    Fetus
    9 week
  • Fetus

    Fetus
    12 week
  • Fetus

    Fetus
    28 week
  • Fetus

    Fetus
    40 week
  • Sensorimotor Stage

    Sensorimotor Stage
    Piaget's Stages
    0-2 years old
    Coordination of senses with motor responses, sensory curiosity about the world. Language used for demands and cataloguing.
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    Infancy

    Erikson's Stage
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    Early Childhood

    Erikson's Stage
  • Preoperational

    Preoperational
    2-7 years old (Piaget's Stages)
    Symbolic thinking, use of proper syntax and grammar to express concepts.
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    Play age

    Erikson's Stage
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    School age

    Erikson's Stage
  • Concrete Operational

    Concrete Operational
    Piaget's Stages
    7-11 years old
    Concepts attached to concrete situations. Time, space, and quantity are understood and can be applied.
  • Formal Operational

    Formal Operational
    11 years old and older
  • Adolescene

    Erikson's Stage
    Sense of the complicity of life, merging sensory, logical and aesthetic perception
  • Early adulthood

    Erikson's Stage
    Sense of the complexity of relationships; value of tenderneses and loving freely
  • Adulthood

    Erikson's Stage
    Caritas, caring for others, and agape, empathy and concern
    Getting married
  • Old age

    Existential identity; a sense of integrity strong enough to withstand physical distintegration