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I was Born
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Infancy: Physical Development
According to my mother, I started walking at about 9 months old, so around April 2000. -
Infancy: Emotional Development
I was securely attached to my dad (even though both my father and my mother were my primary caregivers, I am choosing my father for this example.) Since my dad was very good to me as a baby, my father could leave the room (of course I would be the slight bit upset) but come back and I would be completely fine. I guess I am still like that in the sense that when I leave for college I get a little upset, but when I come back home and see my dad, after having missed him, I am fine. -
Infancy: Cognitive Development
In Piaget's Sensorimotor stage, there is something called a A-not-B error, which is used to describe infants inclination to search for a hidden object in a familiar location rather than in a new location. When I was a child and I would play hide and go seek with my dad, he could hide anywhere in the house but I would always search my bathroom closet. Likewise, I would always hide in the same spot when I was the hidden, the bathroom sink. -
Infancy: Emotional Development
As a baby, my temperament was very easy. I was very comfortable at adapting to new situations and had a pretty stable sleep/wake cycle. I was also an overall positive baby. I base this off of videos of myself as a baby as well as my moms stories of my friendly attitude towards strangers and new things that came into my life. At many occasions my mother would have to pry me away from a stranger that I would want to talk to. -
Early Childhood: Emotional Development
My family described me as and easygoing, fun child. Besides the fact that as a young child I got sick a lot, I was pretty normal and non-confrontational. This was very similar to my temperament as an infant as well. -
Early Childhood: Cognitive Development
In Piaget's pre operational stage of development there is a component of the symbolic function substage called animism which is the belief that inanimate objects have life-like qualities and are capable of action. I had a Barbie named Aurora when I was little and I would play with her basically everyday. If I didn't play with her one day, I thought she was upset with me. -
Early Childhood: Cognitive Development
When I was a little girl, I, most likely because I had an older brother, played with mostly video games, action figures, legos, and objects I found outside. Even though I had a few Barbies that I played with, the majority of my toys came from a more boyish side. This does not necessarily fit with the research on children's concept formation and categorization because I participated in more boy-like activities when I was little rather than girly ones. -
Early Childhood: Cognitive Development
When I was in little, my parents would read Doctor Suess books to me every single night. Along with reading to me, they would ask me various questions about words or which words didn't make sense to me. Almost like an after reading quiz. They would also read the books with such enthusiasm that it would make me all the more interested in what I was learning. -
Middle and Late Childhood: Cognitive Development
When I was in elementary school, there was a group called the "space" kids. This was basically a group of smart kids, who later made 30-36's on their ACT's. It always made me upset because while my best friend was in space, I was in special ed. In reality, we were both gifted, just in different ways. However, I still felt un-included and unintelligent compared to all the other kids. But with hard work and focus I was able to test out of special ed and join these "space" AP classes. -
Middle and Late Childhood/Childhood: Physical Development
When I was a child I got my exercise from playing. I would go play outside with my neighbors, with the kids at my swimming pool or at gym at school with my friends. Back then I didn't think anything of my playing and how it was affecting my health or physical development. I did it to have fun and be with other kids. -
Middle and Late Childhood/Childhood: Physical Development
For the excercise that I did when I was a child, I used mostly gross motor skills, using my whole body instead of delicate actions. This included running, jumping, stretching or doing cartwheels (which I still love to do). -
Middle and Late Childhood: Cognitive Development
In Piaget's concrete operational stage there is a concept called transitivity, which is the ability to logically combine relations to reach certain conclusions. When I was in elementary school I had so much trouble with learning transitivity. I, for the life of me, could not contemplate how A>B and B<C = A>C. The concept did not register to me until around 5th grade. I remember having meetings with my teacher when I was young just for her to explain the concept to me. -
Adolescence: Cognitive Development
One Piagian concept is personal fable. Personal fable is a part of adolescent egocentrism that involves an adolescent's sense of personal uniquness and invincibility. Since I am basically still an adolescence, I still have thoughts of personal fable. I still do things that may not be safe and think "I won't get hurt," or "I won't get into trouble," when in contrast, I am just like any other kid. -
Adolescence: Physical Development
I personally entered puberty early for my age. I was around 5'9 my 7th-8th grade year of middle school and had my first major breakout of acne when I was in fourth grade. The acne part hurt because not many other kids had bad acne like I did. The height difference was also hard because I was taller than, not only all of the girls, but boys as well. I guess the biggest impact that it made on me was that it made me feel more like an outcast and different. -
My mom lost her job
This not only affected my mom, but affected my whole family. On top of missing her job, my mom was left without an income for about four months. -
Adolescence: Emotional Development
When I was around 16, I had the biggest crush on this boy who was a really good friend of mine. Even though I think he just liked me, I really, really loved him. I loved spending time with him and we hugged a lot. Sternberg would most likely, according to his Triangular Theory of Love, describe me, or us, as having infatuation. -
Adolescence: Physical Development
During my adolescnt years I used both gross and fine motor skills. Gross for working out with heavy weights and fine (pincer and palmer grasp) for playing volleyball. -
Adolescence: Physical Development
It was not until I was an adolescent that I began working out. About age 14. I would work out competitively for my volleyball team, as well as playing volleyball after every workout. I worked out hard because I wanted to be a good athlete. Not really for health, all I thought of was how hard I worked was how hard it would pay off in the end while I was playing volleyball. This definitely helped me figure out my workout schedule for when I was older, and all my determination. -
Early Adulthood: Physical Development
Nowadays, I work out almost everyday, either by running or working out with weights. Unlike my childhood, no I exercise for health and to look good. Primarily because I am surrounded by people my age and want to look good. -
Early Adulthood: Physical Development
For my excersie as an adult, I use both gross motor skills, for working out with weights (acquiring large muscle use) and running, while also using fine motor skills, because I occasionally set with a volleyball. This uses both palmer and pincer grasps. -
Early Adulthood: Emotional Development
Right now, concerning my relationship with my boyfriend, Sternberg would describe our relationship as Affectionate love. This is because in our relationship, I like to be with him and care about him, vice versa. We, as a young couple, have both intimacy and commitment. -
Early Adulthood: Emotional Development
My closest relationship right now is most likely with my best friend Karen. Our attachment style would be a secure one because we get along with each other very well and are not afraid to start new positive relationships with other people we would call our friends. We are not jealous of hanging out with others as well. -
I graduated High School!!
One of the best days of my life was when I graduated high school and got to celebrate with my friends and family. This was also the moment in my life that I realized that I was starting a new, very serious chapter of my life. -
I joined Delta Gamma!!
One of the best decisions I have ever made was the rush DG! The amount of friends I have made plus the support I have been given is more than I could have ever asked for. -
Early Adulthood: Cognitive Development
One Piagian criticism is that some adults may not reach the level of formal operational thinking. That is the cognitive stage at which individuals are able to think in logical and more abstract ways. Even though I hope to be able to reach this type of thinking, I may not, if I don't already have it.
