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My Birth
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My Developmental Timeline
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Infancy: Social: What was your first word?
My first word was dad. -
Infancy: Physical development: What types of activities did you complete to encourage gross/fine motor skills at infancy?
Gross- rolling over or pushing a walker
Fine- grasping different things -
Infancy: Emotional: What were some strategies that you used to cope with stress?
I was self soothing, I sucked on my pacifer. -
Infancy: Personality
What was your temperament classification according to Rothbart and Bates? How did your temperament affect your parent's goodness of fit?
- My mom describes me as an easy child. I was capable of self soothing at a young age which allowed my parents a feeling of relief and provided us with a goodness of fit -
Infancy: Social: How would you define your attachment to your primary caregiver? Securely or insecurely? How did your attachment affect your development?
Securely attached. I was a typical, normal, and happy baby. I was able to learn to self soothe. -
Early childhood: Social: How would you define your attachment to your primary caregiver? Securely or insecurely? How did your attachment affect your development?
Securely attached. I was a very emotional stable child so I could focus on other things such as learning. -
Early Childhood: Perceptual: What is your first memory? When did that occur?
My real memory was probably my preschool picture day. I was around 3 years of age. Here's a picture from around that time. -
Early childhood: Physical development: What types of activities did you complete to encourage gross/fine motor skills in early child hood
Gross- jogging, jumping
fine- coloring pictures -
Early Childhood: Social: What were some of the strategies that your parents used to increase your vocabulary? Provide an example
My parents really did not have to try to hard to increase my vocabulary. They usually tried learning tv shows or pointing out signs to help me recognize what things were. I was a very fast learner and I want to read so badly when I was 4 that I begged my parents to take me to a learning center. Soon after I learned to read they couldnt keep a book from me and my vocabulary spurted from there. -
Early childhood: What were some strategies that you used to cope with stress?
As I child I do not remember having much stress, but if I did I communicated it with my mother -
Middle childhood: Physical development: What types of activities did you complete to encourage gross/fine motor skills at middle childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood?
Gross- playing basketball, cheerleading,
Fine- writing my name, drawing -
Middle Childhood: Social: How would you define your attachment to your primary caregiver? Securely or insecurely? How did your attachment affect your development?
Securely attached. I was very happy to go to school and learn because of the secure attachment I had. I got sad when she left, vut I loved school and soon realized she would always pick me up because she did. -
Middle/ Late Childhood: Emotion: Thinking back to your childhood, what strategies did your parents use when discussing emotions? Were they emotion-coaching or emotion-dismissing?
My parents have always been very emotion dismissing. Phrases like "Suck it up" and "Life ain't fair" have probably been said to me 20 million times in the last 20 years. I feel like all this has taught me to do is supress how I feel. -
Middle Childhood: Emotional: What were some strategies that you used to cope with stress?
I used to color or draw and sometimes read to relieve stress. -
Adolescence: Physical development: What types of activities did you complete to encourage gross/fine motor skills at adolescence, and early adulthood?
Gross gymnastics
Fine- cursive writing -
Adolescence: Emotional: If you have experienced a loss, how did that effect you and your development?
I have experienced several losses, including 2 of my grandparents, 3 of my mother's siblings, a couple friends and one I'd rather not mention. All the losses were pretty similar in effect to my happiness. It made me cherish what I do have. I feel like certain losses have lead me to become more closed off from people and isolated to a ceratin extent. The date is when my grandmother died. -
Adolescence: Emotional: What were some strategies that you used to cope with stress?
I began to use self harm when dealing with stress or internal conflicts. -
Adolescence: Social: How would you define your attachment to your primary caregiver? Securely or insecurely? How did your attachment affect your developmen?
Insecurely attached. I was very sad and began to cope in terrible ways because I could not or at least felt like I could not explain to my mom what I was feeling. -
Early adolescence: Physical: Based on individual development, physical development, when did you first notice a decline in your senses? What caused this to occur?
I have only really noticed a decline in my vision. I began to notice this around 9th grade. -
Early Adulthood: Social: What were/are some dialect terms (jargon/slang) that you use/d among your friends (words that only your friends/family would understand in a certain context? What does those terms mean and in what context would you use it?
I didn't really use it my friends use the word lit to describe something awesome or fun such as "The concert I went to last night was so lit. Seven people crod surfed in the venue." -
Early Adulthood: Physical development: What types of activities did you complete to encourage gross/fine motor skills at early adulthood?
Gross- bike riding, hiking, running
Fine- paintning, drawing -
High School Graduation
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Early Adulthood: Emotional: What were some strategies that you used to cope with stress?
I go for walks when I'm stressed or get involved with some self care. -
Early Adulthood: Social: How would you define your attachment to your primary caregiver? Securely or insecurely? How did your attachment affect your development?
securely attached. A personI can truly trsut to always be there is my mom. She brings me comfort when I'm stressed from school or life issues. This has helped my emotional development. -
Early Adulthood: personality: What is your current identity status ? Do you identify with identity achievement, moratorium, etc.? Why?
My current identity status would be Identity Moratorium because I have experienced several situations that allows me to know what I want to be in life and where I want to go, but I also haven't fuly committed to a real job or anything really. -
Early Adulthood: Cognitive: Does knowing your IQ change how you think about yourself? How did your IQ effect your schooling?
Yes it made feel more incomeptent and has made me try less hard in school because I feel as if I'm not as smart. -
Early Adulthood: Personality: Did the results reflect an accurate representation of yourself? What are the characteristics that have remained consistent from childhood (temperamental) to early adulthood?
Yes. Some characteristics that are the same are my inclination for novel experiences and situations. I love new information. I have always been pretty organized. I have always thought of others before myself. -
Early Adulthood: Physical: Do you know your family's health history. How does it effect you? How do you prevent it as an early adult?
My grandmother on my dad's side died of lung cancer. My grandfather had a stroke early in his 50s and he also has hypertension. My dad has hypertension and type 2 diabetes. My grandmother on my mother's side had a protein S defiency and COPD. My grandfather on that side of the damily also had COPD. My mom has protein S defiency as well. Their health history can be a prelude to my health history as our genetics are incredibly similar. I combat this by eating healthier and staying active.
