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Prenatal Development and Birth
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Conception: 4 Weeks
My head has begun to take shape, and I am about 3 millimeters long. -
Conception: Week 5
My arms and legs begin to differentiate and emerge. Legs, feet, and webbed toes begin to have a skeletal structure. -
Conception: Week 12
During week 9, gender differentiates. For me, female organs began to develop. I weighed approximately 3 ounces and was 3 inches in length. -
Conception: Week 16-24
My digestive, excretory, fingernails, and buds for teeth form during months 4,5, and 6. -
Conception: Weeks 24-40
During the final weeks of prenatal development and birth, my lungs began to expand and contract. Also, my heart valves and arteries fully mature. Lastly, my movements begin to correlate with my mother's- including hearing, kicking, and communication. -
MY BIRTHDAY
I was born! -
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First 2 Years
Biosocial, Cognitive, and Psychosocial development -
Biosocial Development
My body size and sleeping are two important factors of biosocial development. As a newborn, I slept for atleast 15 hours a day. Judging how much I still sleep today, it was probably more than 15. As a newborn, I was in the 90th percentile in height and weight. -
Biosocial development
My five senses are maturing. Babies spend the first year merely looking around. As a curious baby, I smiled at strangers and put anything within reach into my mouth. As for my perception, my mom called me "Baby," so I would not respond to my name Kristie for a long time. -
Psychosocial Development: Attachment
From six weeks to eight months, I had attachment in the making. By smiling, laughing, and babbling at faces I recognized, I was creating a bond for the rest of my life. -
Cognitive Development: Speech
Babbling began around 6 months of age. -
Psychosocial Development: Emotional Development
At birth, I was a smiling, happy baby. As I became older, I came to be more angry and fearful, as normal development dictates. -
Cognitive Developmennt: Speech
Speech begins around age 1, and my first word was ball. This may explain why I love basketball so much. -
Biosocial development
I was vaccinated and breast fed as a young child. My mother believed in these methods to keep me healthy and strong. -
Cognitive Development
I experienced the six stages of sensorimotor intelligence. Stage one is reflexes. Stage two is sucking a pacifier instead of a nipple. (I was really good at that stage until my parents finally had to cut me off around age 6!) Stage three is responding to people while stage four includes deliberate and purposeful responses. Lastly, stages five and six include becoming a little scientist with experimentation and trial-and-error. -
Psychosocial Development: Mothers and Fathers
As a young child, I had a close relationship with both of my parents. I remember as a child, being especially close to my dad. In our textbook, it states that children with close relationships to their father are less likely to lash out at authority and friends. -
Psychosocial Development: Parenting
My parents used a mixture of proximal and distal parenting. I frequently wanted to be picked up, but I also wanted to feed myself and play with the toys they handed to me. -
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Early Childhood: The Play Years
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Cognitive Development: Theory of Mind
I developed mentors and people I looked up to between the ages of 2-6. I really idolized my teachers because they were so smart and I wanted to learn everything they had to teach. I also realized that not everyone thought the same way that I did. -
Biosocial Development: A Changing Body
My growing has slowed down exponentially from previous years. I began to enjoy unhealthy foods like candy, and especially fruit roll-ups. I did play outside everyday because video games and cell phones did not exist or were not popular yet. -
Biosocial Development: The Brain
Brain development continues to improve. I was always clumsy, falling down often. My coordination of left and right began to develop. -
Cognitive Development: Language
Growing up, we spoke two languages in my house. I do not remember speaking Polish, but it was integrated into my English learning at home. -
Psychosocial Development: Parents
As discussed in the previous discussion board, my parents used an authoritative parenting style when raising me. They were warm, loving, and supportive, but also had high expectations when it came to behavior and school. -
Biosocial Development: Abuse and Injury
I was never physically abused or neglected as a child. Although my parents did spank me, I believe it was part of normal parenting. I have no emotional scars from the way they raised me. -
Psychosocial Development: Emotions
I was very emotional as a child, as I still am today. Empathy and agression began to take form between the ages of 2-6. -
Cognitive Development: Education
As an avid learner, I began to read at a young age. My mom stressed the importance of reading. That is all I did growing up. I would read books to my friend who was older than me, and teach her to read. -
Psychosocial Development: Gender Identity
From a young age, I always played with the boys. Whether it was hockey or gymnastics, I was also active. The girls wanted to play with dolls, and I wanted to ride bikes. I always knew I was a girl, but I wanted to wear hats and boys clothes. My mom allowed me to choose whatever I wanted to wear, because I would cry if she tried to put me in a dress. I was the biggest tomboy. -
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Middle Childhood
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Biosocial Development: Physical Play
I began to play organized sports between the ages of 6-11. My height slowly peaked for a few years, but I never had trouble with weight or asthma. -
Biosocial Development: Brain
When it came to intelligence tests and schoolwork, I was always top of my class between these years. I remember challenging myself in math and english, and I would always tutor other students. -
Cognitive Development: Memory and Knowledge
As a growing child, my memory was average. I know that my sister can still remember things from this time period, where I can not. As a growing child though, I was always open to learning from mentors and peers -
Cognitive Development: Language
When I was in elementary and middle school, we had just begun spanish classes and I thoroughly enjoyed them! -
Cognitive Development: Education
I never attended a voucher or charter school, but I did go to Catholic school from K-8th grade. I believe growing up that Americans were high on the international standards, and now other countries have taken over educational ranks. -
Psychosocial Development: Family
I had two loving parents and two siblings that cared about me. Our household income was high and we had an easy lifestyle growing up. My parents gave us the opportunity to try anything we wanted. -
Psychosocial Development: Dealing with Stress
To defend against stress as an adolescent, I found support in friends and family. I also became more of an individual and relied on myself when matters became too personal. -
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Adolescence
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Biosocial Development: Puberty
I began puberty when I was in eighth grade. Increased hormones, reproductive ability, and sexual characteristics began to develop. -
Biosocial Development: Brain
With continuing brain development, adolescents tend to act impulsively. Although I was not as crazy as my friends were, I still did things out of impulse that seemed like a good idea at the time. -
Biosocial Development: Nutrition
I did not suffer an eating disorder during my adolescent years, or ever. I had adequate nutrition. Although my mom allowed me to eat whatever I wanted, she always made sure that my siblings, myself, and even my friends were properly fed. -
Cognitive Development: Thought Process
I began to be able to think hypothetically and deductively. Thinking with abstract thought meant I began to be able to think more critically and indepthly. I was able to understand more complex subjects that I could not understand in middle childhood. -
Cognitive Development: Teaching and Learning
As a highschooler, I was bullied for a few months. I did well in school and on the high stakes tests mentioned in our textbooks. -
Psychosocial Development: Identity
When developing my identity, I knew I was a straight young woman. My aspirations included getting into a good college and getting a basketball scholarship. Both of those dreams came true for me. I was instilled with hard work and that makes up the core of who I am today. -
Psychosocial Development: Relationships
I was definitely a teenager who fought tooth and nail against my mom! I remember going through a period where I could not stand to hear her voice. That must just be part of growing up. I became sexually active but never got into trouble with drugs, alcohol, or in school. -
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Emerging Adulthood
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Psychosocial Development: Final Identity
I have not finished this stage of my life, as it progresses through age 25. I am working toward my vocation in life, and trying to decide what career path to finally follow. I have found my habits and traits, but I still do hope to change a few. -
Psychosocial Development: Intimacy
My friendships mean everything to me as this point in my life. My best friends from my childhood and college are the people I depend on most. I still live with a few of them as well. I recently lived with a boyfriend but we broke up. Many people I graduated high school with had kids and got married already. That lifestyle is not for me quite yet. -
Psychosocial Development: Family
My parents still provide some financial and more emotional support for me. They help me make life-changing decisions and listen to the stories I have to tell them. I may need to move home to save money for graduate school, but I am not looking forward to that time! -
Biosocial Development: Health
As a collegiate athlete, my health habits were better than most. With atleast 3 hours of exercise per day, I was in the best shape of my life. Although I did not eat the healthiest every day, I was burning off so many calories that I had to continuously eat. -
Cognitive Development:Postformal Thought
As a growing adult, one is supposed to be able to balance emotion and logical thought. I know that I have not yet mastered that skill. -
Cognitive Development: College
I started college in September of 2009. I graduated in May 2013 with a bachelor's in biology. Many members of my family went to college, and it never crossed my mind not to go to college. -
Biosocial Development: Growth and Mental Health
Adapting to a new life in college was difficult at first, and I emotionally drained myself. After coming into a routine, I love my life, new freedom, and independence. -
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Adulthood
I have not reached this stage of my life yet, so I will discuss what happens to most adults. -
Biosocial Development
In the years throughout adulthood, people begin to undergo senescence. Senescence is the breakdown of the body. The brain begins to slow down, and skin becomes wrinkly. There is less strength in the muscles. I hope that I continue to work out often and maintain health. Along with this, sexual reproduction decreases and eventually stops in women during menopause. -
Psychosocial Development
Divorce and seperation are common during this time for adults. On the other hand, some people share lovely times with their aging children and parents. Also, many adults spend time and money on raising their children. Employment differs for many adults, and can be lifelong jobs, shiftwork, or unemployment. -
Cognitive Development
Social intelligence increases with age, as does vocabulary. Intelligence can decrease in other areas as age increases. As an aging adult, people also become more intellectual, intuitive, strategic, and flexible when it comes to decision making. Experience plays a factor in these situations. -
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Late Adulthood
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Biosocial Development
Many activities can be added to this time of life to enhance the quality of living. All of the senses eventually decline and disease becomes much more common. As for aging, there seems to be a life span on cells, and that is why they die and we eventually do too. Today, more people than ever do live past 100 years. -
Psychosocial Development
Some elderly people are still active today. Some are employed, do volunteer work, or participate in activities. My grandparents work in the yard, go to church, and go to garage sales. Many friends have died if one survives late into life, but relationships are loyal. Many elderly cannot care for themselves, and move into assisted living, nursing homes, or independent living. Activities of daily living become difficult. -
Cognitive Development
Long-term memory is in tact for most elderly people. Dementia occurs often and affects short term memory. I currently work in assisted living and I see both of these types of memory every day. There are a few residents who are quite religious, while there are plenty more who are not devout at all. -
Death and Dying
At the end of life, people everywhere have the same hopes about death. These include death being at the end of a long life, peaceful, quick, with family, and without pain. -
Death and Dying
There are five stages of death: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.
After one dies, grief, bereavement, and mourning all can occur. I have a had time coping with death, and my grieving still continues. I lost my grandma at 13 years of age, and my emotions still get the best of me whenever we celebrate her life at church. -
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My Death
The date of my death will be the day after my 90th birthday. 90 years is a long time to live, and I will be very lucky to make it that long. With continued physical fitness, and a little luck to stray away from disease, my ninety years will be the best!