Developmental Psychology

  • Born

    Born
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    SensoriMotor

    Create Schemas, can't understand conservsation, minor thinking capability
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    Trust Vs. Mistrust

    Infants lead their life based on the virtue of hope, discover who and what to trust and what not to
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    Pre-Conventional Morality

    Morality is based on a punishment-reward system. Child begins to understand that there can be multiple viewpoints
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    Social Changes

    Men marry at:29, Women marry at 27
    Average age for first child is 25.2
    Midlife transition is a general dip in sense of well being and a sense overall boredom with daily life arises. Another name is midlife crisis. Average age is 43 for men and 44 for women. For men it usually last between five and ten eyars, but for women it usually lasts between two and five years
  • Raise Head 45 Degrees

  • Can roll over

  • Sit with support

  • Sit Without Support

  • Pull self into standing position

  • Pull self into standing position

  • Walk holding onto furniture

  • Creep

  • Secure attachment

    Child feels safe exploring the world using their parent/caregiver as a safe zone, goes to them for comfort
  • Ambivalent Attachment

    Wary of strangers, worried when parents leave but not visibley comforted when parent returns
  • Avoidant Attachment

    Avoid parents, Don't seek contact or comfort from parents, don't perfer parents to strangers
  • Disorganized attachment

    Shows a mixture of avoidant and resistant behaviors, may seem dazed or confused
  • The Easy Child

    Easy Temperment, adapt to situations well, good mood
  • Slow to Warm Up

    Children don't adapt to situations well but can eventually change to a new schedule
  • The difficult Child

    This child does not adapt to new situations, general bad mood, cries often
  • Walk alone

  • Stand Alone

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    Autonomy Vs. Shame

    Child lives life by virtue of will, learns what one can do and what may do, what one cannot do and what may not do
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    Preoperational

    Begin to speak, cannot manipulate information, don't understand concrete logic
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    Initiative Vs. Guilt

    Children live their life through the virtue of purpose, development of interpersonal skills
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    Industry Vs. Inferiority

    Competency. Children learn to do math skills, confidence level raises, teachers and peers become very important
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    Concrete Operational

    Appropriate use of logic, cannot think hypothetically
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    Conventional Morality

    People understand that authority is not internalized, can develop good interpersonal relationships, maintain social order
  • First Spermarche

    Onset of sperm production in boys, start of puberty
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    Formal Operational Stage

    Logical use, abstract concepts, Hypothetical thinking, deductive reasoning
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    Identity Vs. Role Confusion

    Individual begins to want a society to fit into. Roles that one will occupy as an adult, soul searching
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    Puberty

    Boys voices become deeper, facial hair, body hair, sperm production, muscle mass increases, broadening of shoulders
    Girls voices become fuller, body hair, menstral cycle begins, breasts and hips begin to develop
  • First Menarche

    First period, start of puberty in girls
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    Intimacy Vs. Isolation

    Explore relationships, share oneself more with others outside family,
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    Middle Age

    Certain areas of the brain begin to deteriorate while others show the peak of their ability
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    Generativity Vs. Stagnation

    Give back to society, raise and care for children, bigger picture
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    Middle and Late Adulthood physical Changes

    Lose muscle mass, hiar goes white, skin loses elasticity, joint pain, fluid memory decreases but crystalized memory increases
    Sensory Changes: Sights is more strained, hearing is worse, touch can be hindered by arthritis
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    Cognitive Changes in adulthood

    Better sense of well being later on, deteriorating sense of fluid intelligence but an increases level of crystalized intelligence, generally considered wise because of life experience. Alzheimer's is a deisease in which an individual's brain is deteriorating, causes senility
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    Post conventional morality

    Only the top ten to fifteen percent of people can think this abstractly, ethical thinking, personal self-chosen principles are enacted, in the latter of the two stages involved in this the indivual stands for their ideals that may disagree with those of society
  • Menopause

    Women can no longer have children, the process of losing the ability begins.
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    Integrity Vs. Despair

    Slow down productivity, contemplate accomplishments, leads to sense of well being and wisdom or to sense of impending doom and depression.
  • Death

    Average life expectancy for US is 78.74 years