Personal Developmental Psychology_Hyunjin Cho

  • Birth: Biological

    Birth: Biological
    I was born in Korea. As I grew, I developed some reflexes, such as rooting reflex, sucking reflex, and crying reflex when I was hungry.
  • Birth: Psychosocial

    I am born and I formed an invisible emotional bond between my mom and me, and I need my mom, not only food and shelther, but warmth and love. If my mom is gone I cry and wail for her to come back. However, if she comes back, I become calm, probably having secure attachment.
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    Sensorimotor Stage begins.

    I am born and I start to experience the world by my yet inept five senses and slowly develops object permanence by my mom's pee-ka-boos.
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    Pre-Operational Stage occurs.

    I know how to pretend, schemas are created. I have egocentrism, where I know that my mom is my mom not my dad's wife. I still don't know conservation, thinking 100mL in each wide and long containers are different.
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    Concrete Operational Stage initiates.

    I now understand conservation, knowing that 100mL in each wide and long containers are same. I learned math, the transformation and reversibility of numbers, like 4+1 is 5, and 5-4 = 1. Also, I learned multiplication and divison.
  • Psychosocial: Competence vs. Inferiority

    I am in elementary school, I was dreadfully happy when I won in the Spelling Bee, but I experienced fear when I didn't get nominated for Peer Pal and my friends were teasing me.
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    Formal Operational Stage starts.

    I fathom analogies, allegories, and abstract ideas. I know what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is bad. My brain has increasing memory and knowledge, as well as about 4 different languages.
  • Puberty

    Puberty
    I began puberty, quite an early bloomer, and my height and weight began to increase, primary and secondary sex characteristics appearing, and production of hormones occured. Also, I am more of a risk taker, experiencing new things, such as dying my hair with rainbow colors for a day.
  • Present: Biological

    Present: Biological
    I am now in the edge of puberty, more mature than I was before, having a mellowed character and I personally think that my frontal lobes are in the verge of starting rewiring.
  • Present: Psychosocial

    2015 My parents show authoritative parenting style, where there is freedom with few limits. I think I have quite high self-esteem and high social-competence, and low agression(except when I am with my brother).
  • Future: Psychosocial

    I am in young adulthood, where I am in the middle of intimacy and isolation. I am going to college with happiness and fear. I would unlikely choose to isolate myself, rather be more socializing, depending on the people around me.
  • Future

    I am in college, with developing frontal lobes and I am starting to meet the peak of my natural physical activities. However, my brain is still in the process of developing.