Timeline Final Project

By finchl
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    Prenatal Development and Birth

  • Conception

    Approximate date of conception

  • Hearing Develops

    Biosocial Event: Hearing begins developing around this time, in the final trimester.

  • Birth

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    First Two Years

  • Binocular Vision

    Biosocial Event: Now able to focus with both eyes to see an image.

  • Laughter

    Psychosocial Events: First time I laughed and was able to feel the emotion surrounding it

  • Grabbing

    Biosocial Event: Ability to grab and hold objects with much better coordination.

  • Began Walking

    Biosocial Event: Began walking for the first time.

  • Comprehension

    Cognitive Event: Began understanding words/comprehending what they meant.

  • Self Awareness

    Psychosocial Event: Development of self-awareness, pride, shame, and embarassment

  • Curiosity

    Cognitive Event: Curiosity of environment and surroundings began to spike around this time
  • Period: to

    Early Childhood

  • Brain Weight

    Biosocial Event: Brain development has been occuring, neural pathways have been developing, and brain weight is now 75% of adult brain weight.

  • Self-Concept Development

    Psychosocial Event: Now have an udnerstanding of self, in relation to self-esteem, appearance, personality, and various traits.

  • Preoperational Intelligence

    Cognitive Event: Language and imagination start begin to be a major part of my life.

  • Appetite Changes

    Biosocial Event: Appetite started decreasing and I became more picky about what foods I would eat

  • Sleep Regulation

    Biosocial Event: Sleep became more regulated. Woke up in tantrum in the middle of the night much less frequently.

  • Imaginary Friend

    Cognitive Event: Had an imaginary friend for about a year.

  • Change in Externalizing Problems

    Psychosocial Event: Began pouting and cursing rather than hitting and screaming. More self-control being exhibited.
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    Middle Childhood

  • Height and Weight Changes

    Biosocial Event: Reached 50lbs and surpassed being 4 feet tall.

  • First Sports Team

    Biosocial Event: Joined my first soccer team, because was much better with my dexterity, and I enjoyed the sport.

  • Memory Improvements

    Cognitive Event: Memory improved dramatically, enough to start doing very well in school.

  • Forming Interests

    Cognitive Event: Started becoming interesting in certain things I was learning in school.

  • Coping with Life Changes

    Psychosocial Event: Was able to cope with moving to a different country and making all new friends, with little stress.
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    Adolescence

  • Puberty

    Biosocial Event: Entered puberty quite late at age 12.

  • Sexuality Confusion

    Psychosocial Event: Start devleoping sexual urges that I did not consider "natural." Begin surpressing the fact that I may be gay.

  • High School Pressures

    Cognitive Event: Started becoming concerned with how I was viewed by classmates, so I acted in ways that were not myself. (ex: music choices, clothing choices)

  • Depression and Anxiety

    Biosocial Event: Life stressors and experiences bring out a internal confusion and depression in me.

  • Deeper Psychological Issues Develop

    Psychosocial Event: High School pressures and hiding the fact that I may be gay from everyone worsened my depression and anxiety.

  • Loss of Faith

    Cognitive Event: Began thinking for myself more in terms of religion. That and some life experiences resulted in me losing faith in religion and becomming an athiest.
  • Period: to

    Emerging Adulthood

  • Came out of my "shell"

    Psychosocial event: Started caring less what people think and became less shy/introverted after High School. Admitted my sexuality and tried to embrace it.

  • Loss of Virginity

    Biosocial event: loss virginity within a relationship, but was not in any way looking to settle down/get married.

  • Drugs & Alcohol

    Biosocial event: Started smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol around this time through most of my college years

  • Suicidal thoughts

    Cognitive Event: Considered committing suicide during a rough time, as I could not control my thoughts. Could not completely accept my sexuality, and I couldn't understand why I was the way I was.

  • Physical Fitness

    Biosocial Event: Began working on my physical fitness and becoming more healthy

  • Graduation from College

    Cognitive Event: Graduating from College

  • Risky Decisions

    Biosocial Event: Expect to move somewhere random in the country once graduated, may be a risky move, but it is my plan as of now.

  • Cohabitation

    Psychosocial Event: Expect to live with my significant other outside of wedlock around this time
  • Period: to

    Adulthood

  • First Child

    Biosocial Event: would like to have my first child by this age

  • Grey Hair

    Biosocial Event: Expect to start showing grey hair

  • Decision Making

    Cognitive Event: Expect to be "sound" in my decision making processes by this point in my life, and be able to make most decisions without second guessing myself

  • Change Career

    Psychosocial Event: I expect to completely change my job/career path somewhere around this age, as I will feel like I need to do something else with my life.

  • Wrinkles & Appearence

    Biosocial Event: Expect to have noticable wrinkles and a full head of grey hair

  • Back to School

    Cognitive Event: Plan to go back to school to keep my mind stimulated, as intelligence levels will be lowered in some ways.

  • Memory Decline

    Cognitive Event: I expect my memory to start to decline at this point in my life, negatively effecting everyday life

  • Death of Parents

    Psychosocial Event: I expect to be hit very hard by the death of my parents somewhere around this age.
  • Period: to

    Late Adulthood

  • Retirement Health Changes

    Psychosocial Event: Healthy lifestyle changes upon retirement. Now that I am not as active in work, my exercise and health will also begin to suffer. Spend much more time relaxing rather than partaking in athletic activities.

  • Judgmental Behaviors

    Biosocial Event: Starting to realize how distant I am from the new attitudes and beliefs of the younger generation. Unintented judgments toward newer ways of life.

  • Wisdom

    Cognitive Event: When memory allows it, able to part certain wisdoms onto younger generations. Long life has allowed self to be more knowledgable about certain things, even though memory and intelligence is declining in some ways

  • Fewer Social Interactions

    Biosocial Event: Decline of my own health results in going out less, because of potential mobility issues.

  • Major Memory Issues

    Cognitive Event: Often unable to recall information from recent as well as long term memory. Takes much longer time to remember names, events, and places.

  • Loss of Life Companion

    Biosocial Event: I expect my life-companion to die at this age, devestating myself, but also reminding me that my own death is coming soon.

  • Retirement Home

    Psychosocial Event: Move into a retirement home, after accepting the fact that I am no longer completely capable of caring for myself. Wish to die in comfort rather than strain.

  • Complete Mental Slowdown

    Cognitive Event: Begin to find everyday life difficult. Memories are hard to recall, family members are sometimes unrecognizable, and incapable of doing many basic mental tasks.

  • Death