Developmental Psychology Timeline

  • My birth

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    The First Two Years

  • Psychosocial:

    By Christmas when I was about 7 weeks old, my mom has numerous pictures of me smiling.
  • Cognitive:

    At 8 months I said my first word: dogdog. Following soon after I said dada.
  • Biosocial:

    At 9 months I began taking steps, by 10 months I was walking. At about 11 months my life as a runner began.
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    The Play Years

  • Biosocial:

    I have always been pretty particular and at age 3 I picked out my own clothes and dressed myself.
  • Psychosocial:

    I always played dress up and with dolls. My little brother was a baby at this time and I pretended like I was his mom. Once in the store I told someone while standing in a line with my mom, "Look at my baby." I was always playing the role of a woman.
  • Cognitive:

    By 5 years old I could read picture books with words,
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    The School Years

  • Biosocial:

    I began to play sports. In first grade I started dance, when I was 10 I started to play on a soccer team. After that, I always loved running.
  • Cognitive:

    In 3rd grade we began to learn Spanish as a second language.
  • Psychosocial

    I began to start going to movies with my friends, and my mom would drops us off. I started gaining my independence, yet my relationship with my parents was still good.
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    Adolescence

  • Biosocial:

    Started to hang out with friends more now and with my girlfriends we started to wear make-up and shop more for cuter, less young looking clothes.
  • Psychosocial:

    Still relyed on my parents for many things such as advice, but wanted to be my individual self too and mak my own decisions basd on who I was.
  • Cognitive:

    Began thinking with more abstract logic and had to prepare and take the ACT and placement tests which determined my future.
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    Emerging Adulthood

  • Cognitive:

    Started college and have started to plan out my future. Took out studet loans and think about the effects of things that I do will have on my future.
  • Biosocial:

    Work out regularly and eat pretty healthy to maintain my health for my personal self and well-being so my appearance is also good.
  • Psychosocial:

    Plan to have a serious relationship with committment to one another.
  • Psychosocial:

    Plan on getting married and staying together for the rest of my life, raising a family together and keeping relations with both of our families.
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    Adulthood

  • Cognitive:

    Plan to be working as a nurse already and go back to get my masters degree, becoming a nurse practitioner.
  • Biosocial:

    Plan to bear children at about this age and still maintain my healthy body.
  • Psychosocial:

    Plan to retire and be involved in service work in the community, stay involved in church, and keep in touch with others that are my age and of course spend more time with my family.
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    Late Adulthood

  • Biosocial:

    Plan to keep as active as possible by walking in the morning and golfing a few times a week. Also, plan to live in Florida and go to a pool for water aerobics.
  • Cognitive:

    Will try to keep my memory sharp by playing word games such as scrabble and by reading often to continue learning. Also, will keep lists and place them in the same common place so that forgetting will be a little bit harder.