Natalie

Developmental Life Span Timeline

By nfolino

  • Born

    Born January 19th, 1992 in Atlanta, Georgia.

  • First Two Years: Cognitive- Making sounds

    At 6 months, I started recognizing sounds and mucis and started cooing, babbling, and clapping more to everything.

  • First Two Years: Biosocial- Walked

    I walked for the first time. I developed my Gross Motor Skills.

  • First Two Years: Psychosocial- Santa

    I saw Santa and started feeling anxiety and I did not like being around strangers, including Santa. It is referred to as Seperation Anxiety and happens between 11 months and 14 months.

  • First Two Years: Cognitive- Talking

    I started really talking and saying words to respond to people talking to me. My mom says I recognized my name and many words easily.

  • First Two Years: Psychosocial- Playtime

    I played myself more and watched Barney. I started having self-recognition of things and wanted to be more independent and alone.

  • The Play Years-Biosocial

    I am 3 years old, I weight about 35 pounds, and currently am 60 inches tall.

  • The Play Year-s Biosocial- Tricycle

    Rode my tricycle for the first time by myself.

  • The Play Years: Cognitive- Preschool

    I started preschool at about 3 and a half. I started asking questions such as, why, how, and what. This was referred to as Fast-Mapping, Fast-Mapping is the speedy and sometimes imprecise way in which children learn new words by mentally charting them into categories according to their meaning.

  • The Play Years: Psychosocial- Intrinsic Motivation

    I started drawing a lot of pictures of shapes and objects. I drew things such as, trees, flowers, people, and even buildings.

  • The School Years: Biosocial- Weight

    I gained a lot of weight at this age. I was referred to as overweight by 10 pounds.

  • The School Years: Biosocial- 1st Grade

    First day of first grade. I wrote sentences, learned to write sentences, and starting doing addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication.

  • The School Years: Cognitive- Sports

    Joined a soccer/basketball team. I used long-term memory to learn plays and figure out how to actually play the sport.

  • The Play Years: Psychosocial- Personality

    At the age 9, I felt very in control of my life and started making many friends at school. I started being really outgoing and I grew up in a Nuclear family so I loved being around people, so friends was the way I did it.

  • Adolescence- Biosocial Development: Puberty

    This is where I started puberty. I started my period the summer after 7th grade and started having many different body changes.

  • Adolescence- Cognitive Development: Two Modes of Thinking

    I definitely remember thinking about the craziest things and really started to development my thoughts on everything. The book says there are two thoughts, intuitive and analytic. I believe I was more intuitive because I always arose from hunches and things beyond ratonal explanation, but as I grew up I became way more analytic.

  • Adolescence- Cognitive Development: Conflicts at Home

    I really feel that the summer before High School is where a lot of conflicts started happening at my house. I was growing up and getting sick of rules so I started fighting more with my parents. The book states it as bickering, but I would say it was more of fighting and disagreeing because I wanted to be treated like an adult more. I believe high school and puberty played a role in this.

  • Emerging Adulthood- Bisocial/Cognitive/Psychosocial Development

    I started dating my first serious boyfriend. We dated for a while which is why I combined all three of these into one. We both started thinking more about the sexual chemistry/activity that could go on. My emotions/logic were developing and feeling as though I was in love and he would be the guy I married one day. Then finally, came the intimacy. I lost my virginity to him and initmacy was a reoccuring theme for us when we hungout. I believe the emerging adulthood is the most significant.

  • Adulthood- Biosocial Development: Physical Appearance

    I was in 10th grade and really started focusing on my appearance. I worked out a ton, wore make-up, interacted with boys a lot more and started becoming a woman. I could feel my body changing more and more and realized things that I wanted. I wanted people to see me as physically attractive and wanted more attention.

  • Adulthood- Cognitive/Psychosocial Development: Intelligence

    June 5th, 2010 is the day I graduated from high school. It was one of the best times in my life and it was the step into adulthood. I made critical decisions in where I was attending College. I had selective gains/losses such as friends, school, and even work. My intimacy with other "adults" became greater and my sister grew up and became closer. It is like a whole new chapter in your life was just opened up when you graduate college.

  • Late Adulthood- Cognitive Development

    I want to be graduated with my Bachelor's of Science in Nursing and looking for my first job.

  • Late Adulthood: Psychosocial Development

    I hope to be married by the age of 29-30. Maybe having one kid if I have been married for a couple of years before this, but if not, marriage.

  • Late Adulthood- BioSocial Development- Elderly

    I hope I am a healthy 69 year-old happy elderly women with grandchildren and enjoying my life. I would like to be a young-old as they refer to it in the book as a healthy 60 to 75 year old integrated with the lives of my family and community.

  • Late Adulthood- Cognitive Development

    I hope to feel as though my nursing skills will still be with me. I hope to still teach people how to be a good nurse and fill them in with skills i hope to learn as a young adult.

  • Late Adulthood- Psychosocial Development

    I believe I will be a strong older women, I know my senses like hearing and sight will decrease but I hope my brain capability will stay with me. I will probably read more and more each day to keep my mine working everyday.