Developmental Psychology by mike dowett

  • Birth

    Birth
    When i was born
  • Grasping Reflex

    Grasping Reflex
    Loss of Grasping Reflex (When palms are touched they grasp)
    - It fades at three months
    - disappears after a year
  • Rooting Reflex

    Rooting Reflex
    Loss of the Rooting Reflex (When their cheek is brushed they open mouth and start to suck)
    -dissapears after about a year
  • Child Moral Development

    Child Moral Development
    They develope a preference for good over evil as soon as within three months.
  • Sensorimotor Staeg

    Sensorimotor Staeg
    Sensorimotor stage is between 0-2 years old.
    - The infant explores the world through direct sensory and motor contact. Object permanance and seperation anxiety develop durring this stage.
  • Babinski Reflex

    Babinski Reflex
    Loss of Babinski Reflex (Where they extend toes and push out)
    - After its lost you do the opposite of this
    - Disapears after about two years
  • Oral Stage

    Oral Stage
    Oral Stage lasts from birth to about 18 monthes.
    - the infant pleasure seeking is focused on the mouth.
  • Preoperational

    Preoperational
    Preoperational Stage is between 2-6 years old.
    - The child uses symbols to represent objects but does not reason logically. the child also has the ability to pretend. Durring this stage the child is egocentric.
  • Anal Stage

    Anal Stage
    Anal Stage lasts from about 2-3 years old.
    - Through toilet training the child learns to curb freedom and establish social control.
  • Child Cognitive Development

    Child Cognitive Development
    Schemas are developed (mental drawrs to organize information)
    Difficutly develops through the assimilating or accomidating new information.

    - Assimilation- The process of fitting objects and experiences into our Schemas.
    -Accomodation- The process of adjusting or creating new schemas to fit new information.
  • Phallic Stage

    Phallic Stage
    The phallic Stage lasts from about 4-6 years old.
    - child becomes a rival for affections of the parent of the opposite sex.
    -pleasure focused on genitals
  • Concrete Operational

    Concrete Operational
    The Concrete Operational Stage lasts from 7-12 years old.
    - The child can think logically about concrete objects and can thus add and subtract. The child also understands conservation.
  • Latency Stage

    Latency Stage
    Latency Stage lasts from about 6 to puberty.
    - Sexual desires are pushed into the background, and children explore the world and new skills.
  • Genital Stage

    Genital Stage
    Genital Stage begins in adolescence and lasts to death.
    - Starts at adolescence
    -One derives as much sadisfaction from giving pleasure as from receiving it.
    -Sexual desires are renewed individual seeks relationships with others.
  • Adolescence

    Adolescence
    -Formal Operations
    -Corresponds with developing the frontal cortex
    - Can think abstractly
    -Can think hypothetically and imagine a ideal world
    -Personal fable begins- the delusion that we are unique and no one can understand us.
    -Invoulnerablility is formed where nothing can harm them
    -Imaginary audience- delusion that everyone else is focused on them.
    -Indeciveness- aware of multiple options, hard time making up mind
    - Arguementiveness- practice building own viewpoints by arguing every problem
  • Formal Operational

    Formal Operational
    The Formal Operational stage lasts from 12 years to adult.
    - The adolescent can reason abstractly and think in hypothetical terms.
  • Adult Pysical Changes

    Adult Pysical Changes
    Health Problems- A person who makes good lifestyle choices is not subject to as much as others who havent.
    -Menopause- a womans production of sex hormones drop sharply as a biological event. Woman stops ovulating and menstrating and cannot conceive children.
  • Adult Cognitive changes

    Adult Cognitive changes
    -Better at learning new skills and information
    -intellectual development reaches peak in mid 20s.
    -They have a slowed reaction time
    -Ability to comprehend new information
  • Adult Social Development

    Adult Social Development
    Adults encounter new developmental tasks just as adolesents do. They too must learn to cope with problems and deal with new situations. learning the skills needed to cope with changes seems to occur in stages for both adult males and females.
  • Late adulthood social changes

    Late adulthood social changes
    -Retirement occurs in this stage
    -people struggle with getting a reason to actually get up every day.
    - loss of identy (career)
    - loss of social network
  • Late adulthood phycial

    Late adulthood phycial
    Physical deteiation is inevetable
    -body becomes weaker, shrunken, and shorter
  • late adulthood cogitiive changes

    late adulthood cogitiive changes
    -those who exercise their mentally abilities can delay mental decline.
    -by age 80 they have lost 5% of their brain mass
  • Empty nest syndrome

    Empty nest syndrome
    a feeling of grief and loneliness parents or guardians may feel when their children leave home for the first time, such as to live on their own or to attend a college or university.
  • mid life crisis

    mid life crisis
    Sometimes, a crisis can be triggered by transitions experienced in these years, such as andropause or menopause, the death of parents or other causes of grief, unemployment or underemployment, realizing that a job or career is hated but not knowing how else to earn an equivalent living, or children leaving home.
  • Stages of Death

    Stages of Death
    Denial- No, it cant be happpening to me, may think that doctors are incompotant or the diagnostics were mistakes.
    Anger- They feel anger, toward fate and everyone that comes into thier life, and alienate themselves from the world.
    Bargaining- Attempt to bargin with fate may trade promises with god in exchange for more time.
    Depression- they are depressed about what is about to happen and what is going to be lost.
    Acceptance- The struggle is over and they experience a sense of calm.
  • Death

    Death
    When i die