Lifespan of Homam

  • Birth

  • First 2 years

    Biosocial: This is the age when you are getting familiar with your senses (hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling, touch and pain)
    Cognitive: This age is when you first realize that objects or people continue to exist when they are no longer in sight (playing peek a boo)
    Psychosocial: The age when you seek information about how to react to an unfamiliar or ambiguous object or event by observing someones else’s expressions and reactions (Social referencing)
  • Early Childhood

    Biosocial: Mother told me that at this age I would always run around, so she signed me up for soccer.
    Cognitive: I would always follow my big brother around as though he was my biggest mentor my mother would say.
    Psychosocial: Early childhood my mother would tell me how I would always pretend to have imaginary friends.
  • Middle Childhood

    Biosocial: I could remember exercising in gym class every morning and how much I hated it. But I remember near the end when I realized I could run longer, I started to love it.
    Cognitive: I remember telling a lot of jokes at this age. I was obsessed with “Knock Knock” jokes and would annoy my family with them.
    Psychosocial: An aspect of my child culture would be my image. I would get so annoyed at my mother when she kissed me goodbye when she would drop me off at school.
  • Adolescence

    Biosocial: This is when I started to focus on my body image.Cognitive: My culture focused the importance on schoolwork; this is when I started to take schoolwork serious.Psychosocial: All I ever did was play basketball with my friends. Even though the peer pressured me to drinking for the first time, we mainly played basketball constantly. One of my favorite past time memories.
  • Emerging adulthood

    Biosocial: This is when I started participating in extreme sports. One of the riskiest sport was participated in was long boarding down long streets at night. Very difficult to stop once you pick up speed and you just hope no car is driving by late at night. Cognitive: This is the stage in my life where I was so involved in my religion. I would every Saturday hang out with my best friends and study the Quran.
    Psychosocial: When I was in love with my girlfriend for 4 years.
  • Adulthood

    Biosocial: When I really started to realize how poor my eye site has become. I had to switch from contacts to glasses because contacts would start to hurt my eyes.
    Cognitive: A big stressor during this stage when my grandmother passed away. She used to live with us and I would see her everyday.
    Psychosocial: My brother and I make videos for YouTube. We shoot comedy sketches, Because we are so competitive, we end up collaborating our ideas and come up with a better idea together
  • Late Adulthood

    Biosocial: There will be not much I can do to change primary aging, but there is things I could do to change secondary aging. I will try to walk and move a lot every day, eat meals with high nutrients.
    Cognitive: Because brain plasticity is lifelong, exercise that improves blood circulation not only prevents cognitive loss but also builds capacity and repairs damage. Exercise regularly and engage in depth convo.
    Pyschosocial: I will live in integrity because I will complete all my life goals.
  • Epilouge

    I predict that I will pass away at the age 70. I came to this number because of the lifestyle I try to live. I exercise everyday and stay away from smoking or drinking alchol. I do hace asthma, however I believe it is well controlled.