Developmental Psychology Timeline

By fburke

  • Prenatal Development

    My mother begins to feel me kicking. I weight about 20oz.

  • Birth

    I was born today in Troy, NY. I was 7lb 13oz and 19 1/2 inches.

  • The First Two Years: Psychosocial

    I am baptized and introduced to the family. My mother passes me around to see everyone.

  • The First Two Years: Biosocial

    I took my first steps at 9 months old at the Detroit Zoo.

  • The First Two Years: Cognitive

    I speak my first recognizable words at 10 months.

  • The First Two Years: Cognitive

    By my first birthday my mom tells me I was singing happy birthday to myself.

  • Early Childhood: Psychosocial

    My brother is born and I watch my parents hold him.

  • Early Childhood: Pyschosocial

    We move to Michigan to be closer to family.

  • Early Childhood: Psychosocial

    I start preschool and have my first playdate.

  • Early Childhood: Biosocial

    I start learning Irish Dance.

  • Early Childhood: Cognitive

    I'm the only one who can understand my brother. He suffers from speech impairments but I seem to understand him fine.

  • Early Childhood: Psychosocial

    I start kindergarden and make my first friend

  • Early Childhood: Biosocial

    I learn to tie my shoes with the help of my mom.

  • Early Childhood: Cognitive

    My mom says I was a big talker at this age and asked every why question imaginable.

  • Middle Childhood: Cognitive

    I learn to read childrens books.

  • Middle Childhood: Psychosocial

    My parents get divorced and my mother raises us. I learn to adjust to a one parent home.

  • Middle Childhood: Biosocial

    I am swimming on my own thanks to swimming lessions.

  • Middle Childhood:Psychosocial

    My mom gets remarried and I know have a step-dad and two older step-brothers. I learn to adjust to being a middle child.

  • Adolescences: Biosocial

    At 11 years old I was 4'6" tall when I went to the doctors.

  • Adolescence: Cognitive Development

    We got our first home computer, where I learned how to use the interent and email.

  • Adolescences: Biosocial

    My appendix became inflammed and I underwent surgery for its removal.

  • Adolescence: Cognitive Development

    I start drivers ed and learn how to drive when I'm 15 years old.

  • Adolescence: Psychosocial

    I got my first job at McDonalds. There I learned what it meant to work with customers.

  • Adolescence: Biosocial

    I have grown to 5'3" tall.

  • Adolescence: Psychosocial

    I went to my senior prom with friends and my date.

  • Adolescence: Psychosocial

    I graduate from High School and walk during the ceremony.

  • Emerging Adulthood: Biosocial

    I start having seasonal allergies, something I've never dealt with before.

  • Emerging Adulthood: Biosocial

    My wisdom teeth are coming in and becoming a problem. I have all four removed.

  • Emerging Adulthood: Cognitive

    I finish my Associates Degree in Science from Schoolcraft College.

  • Emerging Adulthood: Psychosocial

    My older step-brother Kyle passes away from an overdose at 22.

  • Emerging Adulthood: Cognitive

    I go back to Schoolcraft College to persue a nursing degree.

  • Emerging Adulthood: Cognitive

    I completed a nursing assistant training program and got into the Nursing ADN program at Schoolcraft College.

  • Emerging Adulthood: Psychosocial

    I get a job as a nursing assistant at a nursing home in livonia.

  • Adulthood: Cognitive

    I take my RN exam for my nursing lisence.

  • Adulthood: Cognitive

    I graduate from Schoolcraft College with a nursing degree.

  • Adulthood: Psychosocial

    I get my first job as RN in a hospital.

  • Adulthood: Psychosocial

    I get married at a small ceremony.

  • Adulthood: Biosocial

    At 33 I have my first child, a girl.

  • Adulthood: Biosocial

    At 35 I have my second child, a son.

  • Adulthood: Psychosocial

    My son starts pre-school, I help out in the classroom once a week.

  • Adulthood: Cognitive

    At 42 I go back for my masters in nursing.

  • Adulthood: Biosocial

    At 46, my eyesight has started to go and I need reading glasses.

  • Adulthood: Psychosocial

    My daughter has started dancing competitively and I begin carpooling to different cities for competions.

  • Adulthood:Psychosocial

    My mother dies in car accident.

  • Adulthood: Biosocial

    At 53 I begin to go through menopause.

  • Adulthood: Cognitive

    I pick of nitting as a hobbie. I take classes at a local craft store.

  • Adulthood: Psychosocial

    At 60, I retire from nursing.

  • Adulthood: Psychosocial

    I become a grandmother for the 1st time.

  • Late Adulthood: Psychosocial

    My son has twins giving me two more grandchildren.

  • Late Adulthood: Biosocial

    I have catarack surgery to remove cataracks in both eyes.

  • Late Adulthood: Biosocial

    At 70, I go through knee replacement surgery on my bad knees.

  • Late Adulthood: Psychosocial

    I volunteer at a local hospital to keep myself busy.

  • Late Adulthood: Psychosocial

    I take my grandchildren to the zoo with their mother every week.

  • Late Adulthood: Biosocial

    I begin to suffer from high blood pressure and begin to take medication for it.

  • Late Adulthood: Cognitive

    I take up puzzles as a hobbie.

  • Late Adulthood: Psychosocial

    My husband of many years dies of colon cancer.

  • Late Adulthood: Cognitive

    I've stopped driving and moved in with my daughter for help.

  • Late Adulthood: Cognitive

    At 88, my reaction times are show and I've lost hearing in one ear. I wear a hearing aid.

  • Late Adulthood: Psychosocial

    My brother dies of natrual causes after a bad case of pneumonia.

  • Late Adulthood: Psychosocial

    I've moved into an assisted living facility so I can have 24 hour help and support.

  • Death

    I die at 94 years old from old from a heart attack. Along with longevity, heart disease runs in my family.