AP Psychology Timeline

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  • Birth

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    Trust vs. Mistrust

    Learning whether to trust or not to based on whether or not their needs for things like food and comfort are met.
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    Sensorimotor

    Object permanence, stranger anxiety, and coordinating reflexes.

  • Visible Temperment

    easy infant (40%)
    --adaptable to new situations; predictability in their rhythmicity or schedule; positive in their mood
    difficult infant
    --intense in their reactions; not very adaptive to new situations; slightly negative mood
    show-to-warm-up
    initially withdraw when approached, but later may “warm up”; slow to adapt to new situations
    average infants (35%)
    did not fit into any of the above categories
    New York Longitudinal Study

  • Raise head to 45 degrees

    (2 months)

  • Roll Over

    (2.8 months)

  • Sit with Support

    (4 months)

  • Sit Without Support

    (5.5 months)

  • Put self to standing position

    (7.6 months)

  • Walk holding on to furniture

    (9.2 months)

  • Creep

    (10 months)

  • Stand alone

    (11.5 months)
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    Autonomy v. Shame and Doubt

    Toddlers realize they can direct their own behavior.

  • Walk

    (12.1) months

  • Secure attachment

    (60%)
    Children use parents as secure base from which they explore environment

  • Insecure attachment

    1. Anxious-Ambivalent Tend to use parents and may often cling or refuse to leave parent. They become upset when parents leaves and bitter when they come back
    2. Anxious/Avoidant These children seek little contact and are not concerned when parent leaves. Usually avoid interaction when parent returns
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    Preoperational Stage

    Egocentrism, symbolic thinking, language development, and conservation is developed.
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    Preconventional Morality

    Punishment/obedience: Whatever leads to punishment is wrong.
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    Initiative v. Guilt

    Children are developing imagination, and sharing. They have to learn to control their behavior and take responsibility.
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    Concrete Operational Stage

    Child can think concretely. Conservation develops and mathmatical skills develop.
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    Conventional Morality

    Good intentions. Focus on rules and obeying authority.
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    Industry vs. Inferiority

    Children try to learn new skills, obtain new knowledge
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    Formal Operational

    Abstract logic is developed, Potential for mature and moral reasoing.

  • Girls Puberty/ Menarche

    Menarche: the first occurrence of menstruation.
    Changes that occur duing puberty
    Underarm growth, breast growth, hip growth, pubic hair, mensturation.
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    Identity v. Role Confusion

    Trying to learn who they are as a person.

  • Boys Puberty/ Spermache

    the beginning of development of sperm in boys' testicles at puberty
    Changes
    Facial hair, voice change, underarm hair, pubic hair, ejaculation.
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    Post Conventional Morality

    Recognition that some rules should be broke, Follow own moral code. Individual principles take priority.
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    Intimacy or. Isolation

    Trying to form a close, committed relationship.

  • Average child bearing age

    Women having children.

  • Average women marriage age

    (25)

  • Average men marriage age

    (29)

  • Mid life transition

    Discontentment or boredom with life or with the lifestyle (including people and things) that have provided fulfillment for a long time.
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    Generativity or. Stagnation

    The challenge is to be creative, productive, and give back to the next generation.

  • Menopause

    the ceasing of menstruation

  • Sensory changes

    Adult Cognitive Changes
    Aging and memory
    struggle to remember names, minimal decline in recognition, time-based tasks are challenging, more likely to remember information
    Crystallized Intelligence
    One’s accumulated knowledge and verbal skills
    tends to increase with age
    Fluid Intelligence
    One’s ability to reason speedily and abstractly
    tends to decrease during late adulthood
    Alz·hei·mer's--
    progressive mental deterioration that can occur in middle or old age, due to gener

  • Physical changes in late adulthood

    Wrinkling of skin, sagging of skin, age spots, hair thinning, weight gain, height shrinking.
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    Ego Integrity v. Despair

    This person is trying to reach wisdom, tranquility, wholeness, and acceptance.

  • Men average life expectancy

    Death of men in the U.S.

  • Women average life expectancy

    average age of death in U.S.