Developmental Psychology- Mousa, Aya

  • Fetus

    Fetus
    The latest stage of me starting to develop, befor I was born.
  • Rooting Reflex

    Rooting Reflex
    When someone touched me on the cheek, I turned my head to the side where I was touched, and try to put the object in my mouth.
  • Sucking reflex

    Sucking reflex
    The stage where I would suck on any object that was in my mouth. This stage, along with the rooting reflex stage, helped me eat later on.
  • Grasping Reflex

    Grasping Reflex
    If an object is given to my palm and foot pad, I would try to grasp it by my fingers and toes.
  • Conception

    Conception
    The day my Mother was conceived, and when fertilization occured.
  • Zygot

    Zygot
    What happens right after fertilization. The day I existed in the world.
  • Embryo

    Embryo
    The day I started physically developing and growing, than when I was a zygot.
  • Stranger Anxiety

    Stranger Anxiety
    From 8 to 18 months: I started to experience distress when I was exposed to someone I was unfamiliar with.
  • Birth

    Birth
    The day I was born.
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    Attachment

    Ages 1-18: Attachment to my parents played a key role in my development. These are the years in which my parents were responsible for me, & the years that I relied on my parents.
    Also had secure attachment & felt afraid when my parents ever left
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    Habituation

    I was born in Jeddah, then I moved to Riyadh when I was 1, and then moved from Riyadh to Dubai for one year. I then moved to Jeddah and I am currently living there. I moved a lot and my habituation was frequent.
  • Anal Stage

    Anal Stage
    I learned to go to the bathroom from my parents, as they taught me toilet training
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    Preoperational Stage

    AGES 2-7: I started to use symbols and then I went through the concepts of conservation (realization that properties of objects remain the same even when their shapes change). Also started knew ARTIFICIALISM and ANIMISM and developed language.
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    Cognitive Development

    From ages 3-12, I was Egocentric. This means that I would only look at the world from my perspective, and cannot look at it from anyone else's.
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    Senorimotor Stage

    From birth to the gaining of language: This is when I started thinking with my senses, and then developed a cognitive schemata that explained the world through my senses.
  • Language

    Language
    First time I spoke was when I was one year old. I started speaking verbally and through language later on
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    Pre-conventional Stage

    What you do to avoid punishment
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    Schema

    From 3-till death: I kept interpreting the world through labels and categorized objects/people in certain schematas. Everyday, I constantly do this.
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    Inferiority vs. Industry

    Industry is when people are better than you at something, and inferiority is when you think you're better than someone at something.
  • Inferior

    I always felt like my friends were better than me at
  • Concrete operational stage

    Concrete operational stage
    7-11 years: my thought processes become more mature and adult like. I start solving problems in a more logical way.
  • Adolescence

    Adolescence
    Ages 13-18: This is when I developed from a child, into an adult. Theory of mind comes in at this age and ongoing, where I start to believe that everyone thinks differently.
  • Puberty

    Puberty
    the period where i reached sexual maturity and was capable of reproduction
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    Post-Conventional Stage

    When someone does something to help someone else despite the dangers that are involved.
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    Conventional Stage

    Looking at the moral choice through others' eyes, and making that moral choice based on how others will view them.
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    Formal operational stage

    14-20 years: at this time, i am able to think hypothetically. I developed the ability to think about abstract things.
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    When I once g
  • Highschool years

    Highschool years
    During these years, I experienced the psychosocial stage theory. My personality was influenced by the people i hung out with, and the experiences I went through. This was when I developed socially.
  • Assimilation

    Assimilation
    When I started adapting to new information. With this new information, I then started to fit them into pre-existing cognitive schemas.
  • Highschool Graduation

    Highschool Graduation
    This is the stage in which I am certain of my true friends. I start going through the formal operational stage, which is adult reasoning and abstract reasoning.
  • College

    College
    During college, I start to have fluid intelligence, which is to think logically and solve problems in novel situations. I also go through intimacy issues, and try to balance work and social life.
  • College Graduation

    College Graduation
    During this stage i went through the social clock stage and had to worry about getting a job, and thinking about the future.
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    Intimacy vs. Isolation

    I learnt how to balance my relationship with my husband, and my relationship with my job. I chose intimacy over isolation, and learnt to manage my time wisely in order to make time for both relationships in my life.
  • Marriage and kids

    Marriage and kids
    I started to have the authoritarian and authoritative characteristics. I started to think of the future, & start applying rules for the people in my life (husband) and applying strict rules that come with punishment (for my kids)
    Appied social clock theory. Had expectations for major life events.
  • My daughter

    My daughter
    My daughter experienced the anal and oral stage, like me.
  • Husband and Daughter

    Husband and Daughter
    This is my lovely husband. My life with my husband and daughter is pretty great. I evaluated my life from the past and realized that I couldn't have hoped for a better life. I was so happy with how my life had turned out, and couldn't have asked for better. This concept is known integrity vs. despair
  • Death

    Death
    I died in a car accident.