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3. Newborn: The Social World
Attatchment: Having a strong bond as a baby to their caregiver. Babies show attachment by crying when they need comfort, smiling at familiar faces, and reaching for their parents. As a newborn, I would cry whenever someone else held me as a baby, and would cry if my mom left the room. When she would come back I would stop crying showing I was attatched and felt safe around her. -
4. Newborn: Body and Mind
Sensorimotor stage: First stage of Piaget's cognitive development, where newborns learn and reason through touch, sight, smell, sound, and ultimately experience the world through objects. When I was a newborn, my parents would play peekaboo with me and I would think they would actually disappear. I eventually realized they would not dissappear. This shows that newborns learn object permanance which is knowing that things still exist even when they can’t see them. Important skill in this stage. -
5. Early Childhood: Body and Mind
Egocentrism: Concept by Piaget to describe how small children interpret the world through their perspective and not other people's. When I was around 4, I used to think it was normal to walk around with a lunchbox full of toys and think that it made other people happy as well because it made me happy, but I was not able to interpret the world through other people's perspective. -
6. Early Childhood: The Social World
Empathy: The ability to understand and share the feelings of others. When I was around 6 my brother broke his foot during the summer and he was really hurt and was sad he could not really do much but sit at home, so I was there to spend time with him and play with him to comfort him. -
7. Middle Childhood: Cognition
Law of conservation: a child's ability to understand that a quantity remains the same despite changes in its appearance, and develops during the concrete operational stage. When I was about 9, I remember eating chicken nuggets with my little cousin who was about 4, and she would brag to me that she would be eating more chicken than me because she had more chicken pieces, even though we had an equal amount but mine were not cut into little pieces. I understood that we had an equal amount. -
8. Middle Childhood: Nature of the Child
Social Comparison: When children evaluate themselves based on how they measure up to their peers. They compare abilities, appearance, and behaviors, and this helps them develop a more realistic sense of self. When I was around 10, I used to compare myself with a lot of people playing soccer. I realized I was better than a lot of kids, and a lot of kids were better than me. -
9. Adolescence: Cognition
Invincibility Fable: The belief that an adolescent cannot be harmed by activities or things that would hurt or endanger a normal person. Last year at 16, I was almost sent to juvie for operating a car while my friends were endangering others by shooting gel guns at people. We had the idea that we would not get caught or if we did, nothing would happen. -
10: Adolescence: Social World
Close Friendships: Helps adolescents form their identities and learn how to relate to others emotionally. They begin to seek acceptance from their peers and may experience more intense feelings of loyalty, trust, and emotional connection with their friend. Recently at 16, I have been able to get closer to my brother who has been in college. I used to not talk to him but now I am older and I relate to him more, I call and text him almost everyday to check up on him to create a bond with him.