Psychological Development of the Mind

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    Infancy (0-2 Years)

    Infants usually triple their birth weight by the one year time. They grow about 10 inches within the first year. During the second year, infants usually gain four to six inches added to their height, and 4 to seven pounds added to their weight.
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    Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development

    Stages in which describe the cognitive development of the mind.
  • Infancy (4 Months)

    Infancy (4 Months)
    Infant turns from side to side on stomach. Sensorimoter Stage
  • Infancy (5-6 Months)

    Baby begins to turn from the back to the stomach and vise versa. Objects out of sight begin to exist.
  • Infancy (8-10 Months)

    Infant begins to sit, crawl, and kneel. Object permanance.
  • Infancy (11-16 Months)

    Infant begins to stand and walk.
  • Sensorimotor Stage (0-2 Years)

    Sensorimotor Stage (0-2 Years)
    Learning to coordinate sensation and perception with moror activity.
    Object permanance.
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    Childhood (2-7 Years)

    Children gain two to three more inches and four to six more pounds per year until adolescance.
  • Preoperational Stage (2-7 Years)

    Preoperational Stage (2-7 Years)
    One-dimensional thinking.
    Displays egocentrism, artificialism, and animism.
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    Puberty

    The period of sexual maturation; the onset of one’s ability to reproduce.
  • Concrete-Operational Stage (7-12 Years)

    Signs of adult thinking about specific objects but not abstract ideas.
    Reduced egocentrism.
  • Menarche

    Menarche
    A female’s first menstrual period
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    Adolescance

    The time period for persons which is crucial in the development of physical and mental traits.
  • Formal-Operational Stage (12+ Years)

    Formal-Operational Stage (12+ Years)
    Capable of abstract thinking.
    Able to deal with hypothetical situations, strategize, and plan ahead to solve problems.
  • Early Adolescance

    Early Adolescance
    The time period in adolecance between the ages of 11-14.
  • Mid-Adolescance

    The age of adolescance between the ages of 15-18.
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    Adulthood

    The last major timespan throughout ones life.
  • Young Adulthood

    A period in adulthood where one finds a significant other to settle down with, and start their careers and a family.
  • Late Adolescance

    The period of adolescance that occurs in the ages of 18-22.
  • Middle Adulthood

    A period within middle of adulthood in which deep psychological changes such as a midlife crises and generativity is affected.
  • Late Adulthood

    Late Adulthood
    The ending period of your life in which people are faced with serious mind deteroration and dying.
  • Death

    Death
    The end of your life in which people go through the stages of dying, and also have a deep psychological effect on their close family and friends.