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4.1.3 Practice: Developmental Timeline
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Crawling to Walking
At 15 months, I am now able to walk. Where at Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development, I am at the sensorimotor stage. During this stage, my behavior is noted by the reflexes I was innately born with: from twitching to crawling to now being able to walk as my body matures. -
First Words
According to Erikson's stages of social development, I would be at stage 2: autonomy vs. shame & doubt, now that I am 4 years old. During this stage, I am only still finding control over my own body, such as still learning how to speak properly and be potty trained . My first words were, according to my mother, was "mine". This was probably a dictation of me wanting to be in control of my environment; which in this case, wanting property of household items. -
Starting School
With my first day going into kindergarten, I am now at stage 3: initiative vs. guilt of Erikson's stage of social development. Starting school prior to this stage is crucial because this is when children like me become innately curious about the world. We gain the interest to want to understand the world, thus asking questions more and more to express our curiosity. As for me, my parents were always intrigue to answer my questions, allowing me to express myself more comfortably as I grew up. -
Easily Influenced
At 14 years old, my moral reasoning as a child is dependent on how I want to be viewed by others. According to Kohlberg, I am at the Conventional stage of moral development. During this stage, I have become disobedient as I decided to pick up skating with my friends at school. The culture behind skating revolves on being very rebellious, where my friends enjoyed being able to skate anywhere even if we weren't allowed to. At that time, I wanted to maintain my friends by staying rebellious. -
Finishing School
Now that I am about to graduate high school, I have now gone through and will still go through Piaget's final stage of Formal Operations. In the Formal Operation stage, my cognitive thinking and reasoning has become more advance and sophisticated to handle adult decisions and tackle more difficult problems academically and in life. Where after high school, I will be going to college to pursue a career path to build a lifestyle of my own. -
Road to Success
Once in college, I struggle on finding what profession I want to major in. Where in Erikson's stage theory, I am at the 5th stage: identity vs. role confusion. During this point in my life, I am constantly trying new things to discover what I am mostly passionate about. In doing so, I adhere to my passion of wanting to take care of animals, thus taking a profession into the veterinary program. It is important to find one's passion in order to avoid an identity crisis of one's role in society. -
Looking for Love
I am now coming to a realization that I have no one to share my successes so far in life. Especially now that I am 25, I am going under the 6th stage of intimacy vs. isolation of Erikson's stage theory. While I have been so focused in my career, I am becoming more aware of needing to spend more time with my family and looking for a possible relationship. People in this stage start wondering about getting married, starting a family and etc. -
Adulthood
Now that I am married, have a family (one son & one daughter), it has come to a point that I am now a full-fledge adult. In Kohlberg's moral stages, I am now in the Postconventional stage at age 42, the final stage of moral reasoning. During this stage, my moral reasoning is focused more putting others before me, such as the need to support my family financially, making sure my kids are happy and being more ethical based on how I want to be foreseen, not how others influence my moral values. -
Mid-Life Crisis
Unfortunately, now that I am coming at old age (57) and my body is getting more ahead than the time I want it to be, I am having trouble with coming to full satisfaction with my life. At the 7th stage of Generativity vs. Stagnation, people at this stage try to seize control of their lives, even if its out of their capability. An action I would do is how I might impulsively buy a sports car to project that I am still young at mind when I should be focusing more on retirement and relaxation. -
Life Flashes Before My Eyes
At age 60, I was befallen with a sudden heart attack due to my history of high blood pressure. As a consequence, my heart is failing and I am poorly bedridden. Realizing that I am soon going to die, I enter the final eight stage of Erikson's stage theory, Integrity vs. Despair. As I lay down in my deathbed, I began to analyze how much I have accomplished vs. how much I regret not being able to do what I could've done. In the end, I felt more stress-free that I lived a fulfilling life in the end.
