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First 2 years
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Biosocial
Rolled over for the first time. -
Cognitive
Began speaking my first real words -
Psychosocial
Began experiencing social learning. I learned to copy things from my brothers and sister. -
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Play years
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Biosocial
Started dabbling with arts and crafts and loved drawing with sidewalk chalk -
Cognitive
Started experiencing 'theory of mind' and wanting to know what others were thinking and why everyine is so different. -
Psychosocial
I began to gain 'self consept' and knew that I liked dancing, so my mom put me in my first dance class which was the start of a very long dance career. -
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Middle Childhood
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Biosocial Development
I tried out for the middle school pom team in the area -
Cognitive Development
It was my first time at pom camp and we had to speed learn routines. This is an example of the use of my control processes. -
Psychosocial Development
Definately started experiencing social comparison. It was of course a constant battle of who is more popular and who has more friends. You start comparing yourself to others and wanting to be like the next person because you think that they have more than you. -
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Adolesence
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Biosocial Development
This is a time when I really started looking at my body image and for noticing the little things that others probably would never notice. I made sure that I stayed skinny and I always tried to look my best. -
Cognitive Development
At this point in time I started experiencing what is called, "imaginary audience." You listen to your friends talking about others and others talking about another person and you start to think that there is probably someone talking about me and you become self-consicous about yourself. -
Psychosocial Development
At this point in time I was on the high school pom team and acted just like every other girl on the team, and of course we were all popular, so I kind of just adapeted to the way they acted and did the same as them. I was definatly experiencing "role confusion." I did not know who I was and I did not care because I was popular. -
Psychosocial Development
This was the middle of my senior year of high school and I finally began to realize who I really was. I experienced, "identity achievement." The summer going in to my senior year I got back in to dance, which in doing this, I believe is what made me open my eyes to who I truly am. So throughout my senior year I started expressing who I really was and stopped caring about being popular and surprisingly, I ended up with more friends this way.