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1.1 Entering Adolescence
I put down the date as October 21,2006. I was 12 years old and remember that day very clearly, as it was the day I started puberty. I got my first period and my hormones were crazy that week. I learned that I was becoming a woman and made me an adolescence. I started to want to spend more time with friends instead of my family. I started to have abstract thinking and wanted more independence. For pages 17-18, cognitive changes, made some decisions that were risky match with my transitions. -
2.1 Early Maturer
I was a early maturer because I started period and mood swings before most of girls my age. I experienced depression when I was in freshman year, but I am not sure if I believe that it has something to do with early-maturer as the book said. I had a lot of peer pressure as I was really very innocent girl, but they made me do some risk behaviors that I wouldn't normally do. My experience could be different if I matured later, but I am glad I am a early-maturer as I learned it in the hard way. -
2.2 Niche-Picking
I was a 7th grader in 2007. I grew to understand myself more and motivated to use more of my critical thinking/abstract thinking. Geneotype-environment correlations happened easily with my parents as they encouraged me and my siblings to be invested in education and social life. They made us play sports and find time to hang out with friends. Their genes have influenced us by their ability in playing sports and intellegence skills as they passed down that gene to us. -
6.2- comanionship
That time, I was turning to 13, a teenager. I had a best friend who would always hangout with me and go most events with me. We basically do everything together, and still to this day. In the text, it mentioned that its a familiar parnter and someone who is willing to spend time with me and join me for collaborative activities. That matches of what our companionship is. That is important to me, as we can do anything together. I have a good comapnionship experience. -
7.3- Extrinsic Motiviation
I remember doing a science fair in middle school, and I was researching on memory. I invested a lot of work on it and I ended up getting the first place. The motiviational came from knowing that there would be a reward in the end, so I went ahead and work on it. I had a strong self-deteremation, and my mom is a scientist herself, so I wanted to impress my mom too. It matches the book by working hard and having a strong self-motiviation. My motiviational way was a hardworking. -
8.1_ Rites of Passages
As of the first time I got my period, I remember this as a rites of passage. My family and parents acted me out as entering the world as a woman. I remember my family congrulating me and it was very embarassing for me. I did not want them to know that I got my period, but it was something that my family liked to celebrate. It's a ritual that they feel important to let everyone in the famly to know. From that day to now, I had gained more responsibility and entered the adulthood from that day. -
3.2 Abstraction
My abstraction of self when i was 14 years old, becoming 15, was that I knew I was deaf, a girl, and someone who can do anything except hear. My parents proved me that right where I knew I could do a lot of things in sports and education world agaisnt the hearing kids. I could remember at the age, I would say, "I am deaf, and I can do anything except hear. I am good at babysitting." I knew my talents and let them define myself. I understood the abstract idea of myself but not full ideal of me. -
4.1 Non Gender-Typed Behavior
First of all, this textbook explains the differences between gender: boys and girls... The factors of the differences cover on the differences in physical, cognitive, and socioemotional. When I was in middle school, a lot of controversy came up in about the roles of the gender. I grew up with a boy who acted like girl, and likes the things girls liked. This guy also had a lot of emotions like the girls would feel. He reflected on alot of what people would think of him. That is one example. -
6_1 Parent-Adolescent Conflict
My first disagreement with my parents was about a prom weekend. There was going to be a party at one friend's house, but I did not tell my parents that, but they wouldn't still let me go. I was so angry and upset because everyone else was going there. Their expectation of me was high, and to follow their decision without questions. Discussion wasn't much offered. Their logic is what I dont agree. I believe in discussing and listening to what child has to say. That's a conflict I experienced. -
7.1- Transition to High School
I remember being very nervous because I knew that it would require a lot of more work and exceptations. As the book mentioned about fitting in, standing out, and drop outs. I never dropped out of high school. I fit in well, because I already knew all of the students since elementary. Stress was a a struggle when I was freshman. I was new to sports and school work, because every weekend, we would always go away to other deaf school for games, so time mangagement was hard. That's my experience. -
3.3 Idealism
I was 15 years old when I understood the concept of who I was, yet I was not sure about who I was and wanted to be. The idealism of myself and my own reputation. I wanted to be this nice girl who still took risks, but the real personality i had at that age was that I was very good girl who followed the rules all the time. I also knew that I was deaf and a lot of things barried me from doing so, and I wanted to feel the same as hearing kids did; the freedom they had from barriers that I had. -
4.2 Gender Typed Behavior
For the first time that I met this guy and he showed the realistic of gendered typed behavior because he followed the rules as of opening the door for women, will protect women, and he would also have a lot of respect for women, because of the way he was raised. Not many boys I met have that kind of sense of gender behavior. It was interesting to see that prosocial behavior to appear when I was in high school. -
3.1 - Personal Fable
When I was in junior year in high school, I was very vulnerable and sensitive. So, I remember when I was going through a friendship fight and I end up alone. I thought that I did not have anyone and I wrote a lot in my Diary. I thought that nobody was paying any attention to me. Until that day, my counselor called me in at school, I realized my family and friends were worried about me. This is personal fable because I had abstract thinking where I got tracked off being alone and thought a lot. -
1.2 Emerging Adulthood
This is the day of my birrthday and the day I turned 18. I definitely think I emerged into adulthood in this day because I felt that I was ready for more advanced of obligations and responsibility. Identity exploration and self-focused are two major parts that made me an adult and matches with my transition from pages 19-22. I explored alot about my identity at that age and focused a lot on social obligations and commitments like sports and school. -
6.3- loneliness
In my junior year, as I have mentioned before, it was my hard year. I was exploring in myself, and questioning the world as why I exist. I experienced some loneliness that year. Book mentioned about how important it is to distiniguish loneliness from the desire for solitude. I had a hard time getting out of being lonely. My friendships with others faded for a while. I lost myself and did not know who I was anymore. I had to improve on getting my friends back and it was quite an experience I had. -
7.2- Transitioning to College
My high school has definitely prepared me for the college work. I was prepared to do a lot of papers, and knew how to time mangagement on my own. The book mentoned about a lot of stress and change, and it does match with my experience. I was so stressed, because I was on my own, without parents telling me what to do. I remember when I noticed that not many of students in my class knew how to do a research paper or use the online database for articles, while I already did. Thanks to my highschool