Child development Christa Garces Tracy Schalnat

  • Sensorimotor

    All about exploring and learning through your five senses. Object permanence. Curiosity.
  • Trust vs. Mistrust

    Establishing parental care and trust that your needs will be taken care of by somebody else. Resulting in Hope.
  • Autonomy vs. Shame

    Learning to be independent. Vulnerable to criticism, need for positive affirmations.
  • Initiative vs. Guilt

    Begin to question the world. Ask why? If parents don't create an accepting environment children will feel guilt and a lack of feeling accepted.
  • Early Adolescent

    Struggle with sense of identity. Interested in the present. Trying to test the limits.
  • Pre-operational Stage

    developing schemas. use of symbolism.
  • Industry vs. Inferiority

    Feel desire and pleasure in being productive. Starting to feel inferior to their peers
  • Concrete Operational

    developmental routines. can't think about the future. egocentric.
  • Identity vs. Role Confusion

    Discovering who am I? separating themselves. Important for relationships with peer groups.
  • Middle Adolescence

    Self-involvement, gaining more interest, starting to develop ideals, greater capacity for setting goals, conscious
  • Formal Operations

    Analytical thinking, thinking abstractly, developing hypothesis and theories
  • Late Adolescence

    Have a firmer identity, high level concern of the future, useful insight, able to set goals and follow through.
  • Intimacy vs. Isolation

    Having a personal connection to yourself to have a deeper connection with the people around you. If you can't: isolation, defense mechanism, loneliness.
  • Generatively vs. Stagnation

    What is your legacy? Are you leaving your children values, rights, a good environment. Stagnation: Thinking about am I making enough of an impact.
  • Integrity vs. Despair

    When an older person decides if they are satisfied. Self-reflection. Two outcomes: positive-can look back and find fulfillment and doesn't fear death; negative-they have regret and fear death.