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Conception
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Embryo starts to develop.
Embryo develops eyes, nose, toes, mouth, heart, and circulatory system. -
Birth
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Mind is a blank slate.
Babies' minds are blank that can be filled with experiences. -
Develop stranger anxiety.
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Start to crawl.
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Babies triple in size
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Start to walk.
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Contact Comfort
Babies have a need to touch something soft such as skin or fur. This need is stronger than the need for food. -
Enters preoperational stage.
Children can only see one aspect of a situation at a time. -
Start concrete-operational stage.
Children begin to show signs of thinking as adults. They can focus on 2 dimensions of a problem at a time. -
Self-esteem reaches low point.
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Formal-operational stage
People in this stage think abstractly and they realize that ideas can be compared and classified mentally just as objects can. Starts at about puberty.
