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Born
This is my birthdate. -
Walked
This could be related to Erik Erikson's Autonomy versus shame and doubt. Learning to walk would be learning to control my body more, and if I kept falling down as I walked would lead more to shame and doubt. This significance would be that if I could walk well, I might feel more confident in controlling myself than if I were overly clumsy as I learned to walk. -
First word, dog
This event would be an exapmle of Piaget's preoperational stage. This event's significance would be in that I was developing a cognitive thinking process, relating the word dog to our pet, and realizing that the word dog was a name for it. -
First time volunteering to help peple
This event would be an example of Kohlberg's Conventional stage. I learned distinctions about what makes something right and wrong according to others' views. I leanred that helping other people and making their lives better, is morally more right, than helping myself and making my life better. -
I admit that I broke my mother's favorite vase
This event would be an example of Kohlberg's Postconventional stage, because I knew that saying I was guilty, rather than letting my sister take the blame, was the more ethically right thing to do. -
My sister gets married
This would be an example of Erikson's Identity versus role confusion. My sister getting married, and going through a big life change, would make me confront my own life. I would figure out who I was, since my sister would know enough about herself to know that she wanted to get married. -
I get my first professional job
This event would be an example of Erikson's intimancy versus isolation. I would know myself better then, and I would be settling in my new job. I would have to figure out how much time I spent on my work, and trying moving up to in the workpalce, versus spending time with my family and friends, and trying to help others. -
I get married
This would be an example of Piaget's formal operations stage. I would be willing to think about a future with my husband that I did not know. I would have to think about the years in the future and come up with a picture for them to feel more secure. -
I adopt children
This would be an example of Kohlberg's postconventional stage. I would believe that adopting children who might otherwise have sad lives, would be better than having children with my DNA in them. If I brought children of my own into the world, then I'm bringing more people into a crazy world. If I adopt kids then I'm giving kids already in the world the best lives I can give them. -
I move to another state
This would be an example of Erikson's generativity versus stagnation. Moving to a different state would make me feel a little like things flew out of my control. I might try to controll my family to feel a little more steady in my life. -
First Grandchild born
This is event coincides with Erikson's psychosocial stage theory. This would be in the integrity versus despair stage in which I would look back on my life and decide if I were satified or not. The addition of a grandchild would probably make me feel good about my life, knowing I raised a child who will raise their own child.