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Birth
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Piaget's Sensorimotor
-Infants use motor abilities and senses to understand the world and there is no reflective thought.
-When I was a year old, my grandma took care of me. She would play peek-a-boo and I used to get distracted and look away.
-When I was one and a half to two years old I my grandma would play peek-a-boo and I would grab her hands and pull them away from her face. (Signs of object permanence) -
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Freud's Oral Stage/Erikson's Trust vs. Mistrust Stage
-Freud: The lips, tongue, and gums are the focus of pleasure and sucking and feeding is the most stimulating activities.
-Erikson: Babies are able to trust or mistrust whether a care-giver will care for their basic needs including noirishment, cleanliness, warmth, and physical contact.
-I was born late, bottle-fed, and slept about 70% of the time. I would scream and cry if I didn't get attention, and I would always have my hands in my mouth. -
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Freud's Adulthood Stage
-Freud believed that the genital stage lasted throughout adulthood. He said the goal of life is "to love and to work."
-I believe his goal in life, but I do not agree with the genital stage. -
Sensorimotor Intelligence 2/ Secondary Circular Reactions
Stage Three(4-8 months)
-Responding to people and objects
-When my family would talk to me I would try talking back. I immitated and clapped my hands and said goodbye and waved when I saw it. -
Binocular Vision
Developed the ability, at about 14 weeks old, to coordinate the two eyes to see one image. -
Sensorimotor Intelligence/ Primary Reactions
Stage one(Birth to one month)
-Sucking, grasping, staring, listening.
-Accomodation and coordination of reflexes.
-I would put everything in my mouth and I loved listening to rock music. -
Babbling
-Repeat certain syllables
-I said: "da-da" "ba-ba" "ma-ma" "aa-aa" -
Started Walking
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Gross Motor Skills
-Physical abilities involving large boday movements.
-Instead of crawling, I would scoot on my butt everywhere, usually scooting until my diaper came off. I think that was the plan! -
Fine Motor Skills
-Physical abilities involving small body movements.
-I was good at pulling hair and grabbing glasses off people's faces. -
Sensorimotor Intelligence/ Secondary Circular Reactions
Stage Four (8-12 Months)
-Becoming more deliberate and purposeful.
-I would clap my family's hands together to play patty-cake. -
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Freud's Anal Stage/ Erikson's Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
-Freud: The anus is the focus of pleasure, and potty training is the most important activity.
-Erikson: Self-sufficiency in potty training, feeding, walking, and talking. Have the ability to doubt their own abilities.
-I was still in diapers because I lived in an orphange. I learned how to use the toilet when I was almost four years old.
-I was self-sufficient. I explored everything and loved climbing the refrigerator. -
Holophrase/ First Words
-A single word that is used to express a complete, meaningful thought.
-My first words were:
Dada: Dad
Mama: Grandma
Chey: Doll (her name)
Booboo: Bathroom
nema: Lemon -
Sensorimotor Intelligence/ Tertiary Circular Reactions
Stage five (12-18 Months)
-Experimentation and creativity. "Little Scientist"
-I would spank my dolls when I thought they were being bad and place them on the toilet and flush it. -
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Separation Anxiety
-I had intense separation anxiety when it came to my grandma, who was taking care of me at the time.
-I would scream, kick, pull hair, and put myself in a horrified state when I didn't win my battle. -
Sensorimotor Intelligence/ Tertiary Circular Reactions
Stage six (18-24 Months)
-Considering before doing.
-I would to flush my brothers' toy cars down the toilet. I stopped doing it because the toilet would over-flow and I would get spanked.
-I would explore and wonder far away when my family took me shopping with them. I stopped doing that because I wouldn't get a piece of candy at the check out. -
Smelling, Tasting, Touching
-Develop acute senses of smell, taste, and touch.
-I had a taste for lemon when I was two years old. Lemons and lemon flavored pudding was my favorite. -
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Cognitive Development/ Preoperational Intelligence
-Paiget's term for cognitive development which includes language and imagination. -
Motor Skills
-Walk up and down stairs
-Climb objects
-Run and kick
-Throw a ball -
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Freud's Phallic Stage/ Erikson's Initiative vs. Guilt Stage
Freud: The phallus is the most important body part to boys. Girls wonder why they don't have one.
Erikson: Children want to under-take many adult-like activities or internalize the limits set by parents. Harbor a feeling of guilt or adventurousness.
-I didn't know what a phallus was but I was very adventurous. I learned how to tie my shoes and get into the child-lock cabnets to steal bags of cookies. -
Motor Skills
-Use scissors for arts and crafts
-Pour a drink without spilling it
-Dress myself
-Brush my teeth -
Cognitive Theory
-Gender identity becomes apparent at age 5. -
Motor Skills
-Copy difficult shapes and letters
-Draw a cat
-Climb trees
-Comb hair -
Sociodramatic Play
-I started pretend playing by acting out various roles and themes, making a story. -
Psychosocial Development
-Emotional regulation
-Self-concept
-Intrinsic motivation
-Extrinsic motivation -
Motor Skills
-Ride a bike
-Figure skate
-Use a knife to cut -
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Biosocial Development/ Middle Childhood
-The period between early childhood and early adolescence.
-From ages 6 to 11.
-My growing slowed and I became stronger.
-I did a lot more physical activities outside independently. -
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Freud's Latency Stage/ Erikson's Industry vs. Inferiority Stage
-Freud: Not necessarily a stage. Children put work into sports and school work, etc.
-Erikson: Children busily learn to be productive and master new skills.
-I hated doing schoolwork, but I absolutely loved drawing. I was involved in every art contest and every science fair that included making something from scratch. I was very productive when it came to art. -
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Biosocial Development/ Middle Childhood
-The period between early childhood and early adolescence.
-From ages 6 to 11.
-My growing slowed and I became stronger.
-I did a lot more physical activities outside independently. -
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Biosocial Development/ Adolescence
-Puberty and Menarche -
Cognitive Development/ Middle Childhood
-Piaget: Concrete operational thought is the ability to reason logically about direct experiences and perceptions.
-Examples: Classification and Transitive Inference.
- I was able to understand categories and connections between things.
-I was able to logically understand best at about age 8. -
Psychosocial Development/ Middle Childhood
-Freud: Latency
-Social Comparison is the tendency to assess one's abilities, achievements, social status, and other attributes by measuring the against those of other people.
-I understood where I stand in society and what I was able to accomplish. -
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Freud's Genital Stage/ Erikson's Identity vs. Role Confusion
-Freud: The genitals are the focus of pleasure and a young person seeks sexual stimulation in heterosexual relationships.
-Erikson:Adolescents try to figure out who they are. They establish sexual, political, and religious views, sometimes being confused on what roles to play.
-I did not seek any type of sexual stimulation but I did develop a sense of self. -
Psychosocial Development/ Adolescence
-Role Confusion
-Identity forclosure -
Cognitive Development/ Adolescence
-Egocentrism -
Psychosocial Development/ Emerging Adulthood
-Emerging personality
-I have high self-esteem
-Cohabitation -
Biosocial Development/ Emerging Adulthood
-Growth and Strength
-Senescence
-Emotional stress
-Appearance -
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Erikson's Intimacy vs. Isolation
-Young adults seek love or become isolated due to fear of rejection.
-At age 21, I found love :) -
Cognitive Development/ Emerging Adulthood
-Postformal thought: Being more practical, flexible, and dialectical. -
Emerging Adulthood
-Ages 18 to 25 -
Emerging Adulthood/Biosocial Development
-Growth and Strength (Peak performance)
-Homeostasis (Body is in balance)
-Sexualy active -
Emerging Adulthood/Cognitive Development
-The practical and the personal
-Combining sunjective and objective thought
-Cognitive flexibility
-Dialectical thought -
Emerging Adulthood/Psychosocial Development
-Identity achieved
-Rising self-esteem
-Finding love -
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Big Five
Big Five: The five basic clusters of personality traits that remain quite stable throughout adulthood: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, ans neuroticism. -
Cognitive Development/Three Forms Of Intelligence
-Analytic Intelligence
-Creative Intelligence
-Practical Intelligence -
Cognitive Development/Fluid Intelligence
Fluid Intelligence: Those types of basic intelligence that make learning of all sorts quick and thorough. Abilities such as short-term memorym abstract thought, and speed of thinking are all usually considered part of fluid intelligence. -
Cognitive Development/Crystalized Intelligence
Crystalized Intelligence: Those types of intellectual ability that reflect accumulated learning. Vocabulary and general information are examples. Some developmental psychologists think crystalized intelligence increases with age, while fluid intelligence declines. -
Psychosocial Development/ Adulthood
-Mid-life Crisis -
Cognitive Developmemt/ Adulthood
-General Intelligence
-Fluid Intelligence
-Crystallized Intelligence
-Analytic, Creative, and Practical Intelligence -
Biosocial Development/ Adulthood
-Aging brain
-Physical appearance (skin, hair, bodyshape) changes
-Sense organs become less acute -
Experience aging
Physical appearance
-skin
-hair
-shape
-agility -
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Erikson's Generativity vs. Stagnation
-Erikson: Middle-aged adults contribute with work, creative activities, and by raising a family for future generations to enjoy. Or they become stagnate.
-When I am middle aged I plan to be married and have a large family.
-I plan on adopting two children after I create a family.
-I plan on becoming a doctor, so I can provide for my future family and so on. -
Sense Organs
-Vision and hearing are slowly becoming less acute -
Psychosocial Development/Midlife Crisis
Midlife Crisis: A supposed period of unusual anxiety, radical self-reexamination, and sudden transformation that was once widely associated with middle age but that actually had more to do with developmental history than with chronological age. -
Psychosocial Development/Ecological Niche
Ecological Niche: The particular lifestyle and social context that adults settle into because it is compatible with their individual personality needs and interests. -
Psychosocial Development/Empty Nest
Empty Nest: The time in the lives of parents when their children have left the family home to pursue their own lives. -
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Erikson's Integrity vs. Dispair
-Erikson: Older adults try to make sense of their lives. Whether it was meaningful or not.
-I know I will have a meaningful look-out on life! -
Cognitive Development/ Late Adulthood
-Memory -
Biosocial Development/ Late Adulthood
-Ageism: Prejudice about late adulthood. -
The Aging Brain
-Brain slow-down
-Retrieval, not storage
-Terminal Decline: An overall slow down of cognitive abilities in the weeks and months before death. -
Abraham Maslow's Self Actualization
Self-Actualization: The final stage in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, characterized by aesthetic, creative, philosophical, and spiritual understanding. -
Biosocial Development/Wear-and-Tear Theory
Wear-and-Tear Theory: A view of aging as a process by which the human body wears out because of the passage of time and exposure to environmental stressors. -
Psychosocial Development/ Erik Erikson
The final stage of Erik Erikson's developmental sequence, in which older adults seek to integrate their unique experiences with their vision of community. -
Biosocial Development/ Late Adulthood
-Self-theories that emphasize the core self, or the search to maintain one's integrity and identity. -
Activity Theory
Activity Theory: The veiw that elderly people want and need to remain active in a variety of social spheres-with relatives, friends, and community groups-and become withdrawn only unwillingly, as a result of ageism. -
Stratification Theories
Stratification Theories: Thoeries that emphasize that social forces, particularly those related to a person's social stratum or social category, limit individual choices and affect a person's ability to function in late adulthood because past stratification continues to limit life in various ways. -
Positivity Effect
Positivity Effect: The tendency for elderly people to perceive, prefer, and remember positive images and experiences more than negative ones. -
Disengagement Theory
Disengagement Theory: The veiw that aging makes a person's social sphere increasingly narrow, resulting in role relinquishment, withdrawal, and passivity. -
Aging in Place
Aging in Place: Remaining in the same home and community in later life, adjustng but not leaving when health fades. -
Death