J Beck Developmental Life Span 2012 (Sec 112390)

By jdbeck

  • Conception

    Conception

  • Prenatal Development Begins

  • Birth

  • 0-6 Months Brain & Sensory Deveolpment Occur

  • 6-12 Months Motor Skills and Language Development Begin

  • 1st Birthday Walks Unassistaned

  • 12-18 Months Self-Awareness Begins, Fine Motor Skills Begin to Develop and Commucation Levels Increase Via First Words & Nonverbal Communication

  • 24-36 Months Maturation of Prefrontal Cortex Occurs

  • 18-24 Months Language Skills Increase (Vocabulary of approximately 550 words) Begin putting 2-3 Words Together. Information Processing and Fine Motor Skills Further Develop. New Emotions Appear

  • 2nd Birthday, Social Bonds and Attachment Deepen, Vocabulary & Language & Fine Motor Skills Increase, Brain is 75% Developed and Functioning

  • 3rd Birthday Limbic System begins to play a greater role in personlaity and behavioral development

  • 4th Birthday Increased Development ogf the Amygdala, Hippocampus and Hypothalamus influence social behaviors more consistantly further definign temperment, reactions to stress and social bonds

  • Preschool Begins - interaction and communication with peers begins, fine motor skills are more complete and language and communication develop rapidly, deeper emotions artistic expression begin to occur

  • 5th Birthday fine motor skills and perceptual abilities advance

  • Kindergarten Begins - guided participation increases, language and social skills improve, basisc problem solving and coping abilities begin to develop

  • 6th Birthday Complete Mastery of Alphabet and Basic Numerical Values, Personality and Social Ethics Begin to Emerge,Social Play, active Play and Sociodramatic play are developing

  • First Grad Begins - middle childhood begins

  • 7th Birthday Daily habits and routines are being more finely developed, hand-eye coordination improves, brain maturation and connection occur, mastery of complex skills begins, namely learning to read

  • 8th Birthday - physical activity and quality increase, neighborhood games become fundamental, selective attention occurs

  • 9th Birthday - classification and transitive inference devlop

  • Moved from Taylor to Northville - self-entertainment and isolation coping skills are deveolped out of necssity, adjustment to blended family life begins

  • 5th Grade Begins Started New School

  • 10th Birthday - Reading, Mathematical and Cognitive Skills Advance, the self concept evolves, more attention is placed on self-consciousness and self critism, daily hassels become a developmental and social obstacle

  • Middle School Begins - study of music begins, fine motor skill mastery is underway

  • 13th Birthday - teenage years / adolescence begins

  • Adopt charlie the cat for 13th birthday, achieve first lifelong goal, develop nurturing skills, learn the importance of responsibilities

  • 14th Birthday - hormonal changes increase, bio rhythms change, final growth spurts occur, stress coping matures, morals and ethics begin to evolve

  • First day of High School- ituitive and analytical thought are rapidily developing

  • 16th Birthday - experienced identitiy confusion

  • First Driver's License

  • First Job (waitress)

  • High School Graduation, college bound

  • Begin college, participate in social norms

  • End 1st semester of college

  • End first year of college

  • leave food industry, take job in child care

  • reduce school to 1 class

  • Take semester off, reflect on academic life and career direction

  • leave child care and back to food service

  • resume full time student staus, development better time management skills

  • leave fine dining, to make more $$ at pub

  • first serious relationship begins

  • rent my first place, subjective and object thought perspectives influence most decisions

  • apply to 4 year college after learning to defeat tendencies towards delayed discounting

  • begin U of M

  • leave restaurant industry, intellectual flexibility impacts this decision

  • Start Cleaning Business (self-employment)

  • graduate schoolcraft

  • break up with first significant partner as he moved out of state

  • First childhood pet, cahrlie the cat, dies

  • graduate from CMU

  • Begin work with Medskin Experts

  • Grandmother dies

  • Begin work at Interior Environments

  • Laid off from Interior Environments

  • unemployment begins

  • struggle to increase cleaning business revenue

  • yoga teacher training begins, faith deveolpment also occurs

  • become strict vegetarian

  • business is good, life seems stable, upgrade living arrangments

  • Med skin Experts goes out of business

  • yoga training ends

  • Meet my current significant partner, better understanding of the dimensions of love

  • vocational identity crisis- decide I want to serve and am unfulfilled with current job and decide to persue graduate school

  • beging nurse assistant training

  • begin prerequisites at schoolcraft

  • cohabitation move in with significant other, give up bachelorette pad

  • complete prerequisites and GRE

  • apply to graduate school

  • accepted to graduate school

  • Sell Cleaning Business

  • travel to India, explore another culture

  • Begin grad school

  • Marry Partner

  • graduate with Master's Degree in PA Studies, crystallized intelligence is peaking

  • Begin work as a PA, utilize crystallized, analytical, creative and practical intellegence to lead a successful career in medicine

  • maternity leave

  • Give birth to first child, further develop nurturing skills, experience motherhood

  • adopt or foster second child

  • hire child care, so I can volunteer part time, utilize my selcetive expert skills

  • both children are in school, return to work

  • diversify retirement funds and update will

  • develop plan to maintain exisiting socials bonds with family and friends including happiness in marrage, as well as remaining open to forming bonds with new friends

  • First child graduates high school

  • second child graduates high school, empty nest

  • 25th wedding anniversary

  • Retire

  • volunteer work pertaining to my ecological niche

  • integrity versus despair arises regarding volunteer work and ways to spend my time

  • sell the home where my husband and I raised our famlily, life review occurs

  • move in one of my children, mild cognitive impairment occurs, activity theory applies to my life

  • death at home with hospice services surrounded by family