Timeline Project - Sarah Perry, PY212-1F

  • Birth

  • Infancy: Language Development

    While unsure of my first word, my language stuck to small items that fascinated me. I often labeled things by their sound, until my vocabulary expanded.
  • Infancy: Attachment

    During Infancy, I was securely attached to my mother rather than my father.
  • Infancy: Stress

    As an infant, I coped with stress through sleep!
  • Infancy: Temperament

    From birth onward, I was quiet and tame. My high effortful control caused my parents to adapt to how different I was than their previous child, by using more mature and bland items to care for me.
  • Infancy: Physical Development and Motor Skills

    Throughout infancy, my parents ensured that I learned to walk efficiently by utilizing activity and play. This included toys that stimulated my personal growth, along with some leisurely strolls.
  • Infancy: Sleep

    For the first two months of life, I woke up in the night three times. It was as if I had a schedule, though once I passed two months, I began to sleep eleven hours through the night!
  • Early Childhood: Attachment

    Once I grew into the phase of more personal attachment, I clung to my father. This began when my mother became more active in the work force, and the love my father had for me became more apparent.
  • Early Childhood: Emotions

    My parents were rather laid back in their strategies with emotion. They took from either side, and dismissed behaviour that was wrong while coaching forward desirable behaviour.
  • Early Childhood: Stress

    My coping strategies changed as I grew into childhood, using activity and dance as a way to channel the raw emotions that many feel at this age.
  • Early Childhood: Physical Development and Motor Skills

    In Early Childhood, my love for the arts began to emerge, and because of this I was enrolled into dance. This specific thing was important to my physical development, encouraging my movements to become more advanced and refined.
  • Early Childhood: Sleep

    Even throughout this portion of my life, I still slept eleven hours a night!
  • Birth of Brother

  • Late Childhood: Attachment

    Through Late Childhood, I was still closely attached to my father. This only increased as I developed and became more like him in personality and talents!
  • Late Childhood: Stress

    Stress grew higher with age, as usual, and so did my activity. Dance and sports became an outlet for my aggression even more so than before.
  • Late Childhood: Physical Development and Motor Skills

    I became much more active within the community, specifically focusing upon what was more team-based sports. This allowed my muscle mass to change and for my body to become stronger, as well as enhance my gross motor skills.
  • Late Childhood: Sleep

    Around the age of 9, I began to sleep less than before. My schedule turned into one that consisted of seven to eight hours of sleep, since school required an earlier waking time.
  • Adolescence: Attachment

    As I began to enter adolescence and grow into the teenage life, I grew apart from both of my parents in general. My attachment largely was to my father, still, but I felt more insecurely attached than as secure as I had been in my infancy and early childhood.
  • Adolescence: Language Development

    During this particular time in my life, there was slang that I would tend to use in order to seem "cool". The term swag was the only one of the few things that I could use, though many people created terms that made even less sense.
  • Adolescence: Stress

    Adolescence often brings a great deal of stress, and during this time I moved around quite a lot. To try and cope with the new experiences, I began to meditate and find relaxing situations and places that would provide solace.
  • Adolescence: Sleep

    During adolescence, my sleep cycle began to turn unhealthy. Trauma caused the number of hours that I slept to become nearly nonexistent, and the existent sleep is bothered and restless.
  • Adolescence: Physical Development and Motor Skills

    As I moved overseas, my lifestyle changed. I began to focus more on flexibility and the stretching movement that the body can do, participating in yoga and acrobatics.
  • Graduated High School

  • Early Adulthood: Sleep

    Sleep is nearly the same as in adolescence, though meditation and therapy have helped with the restless sleep.
  • Early Adulthood: Personality

    The Big Five is widely known, and provides a large amount of information about personality. My personal results include strengths of Open-Mindedness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness.
  • Early Adulthood: Identity

    My current identity status is found in the comfort of who I am, being different and whole. Though I would like to claim that I have reached achievement due to the experiences I have had in my life, I would likely be more inclined to claim identity moratorium.
  • Early Adulthood: Attachment

    With age, I have become more personally independent and have distanced myself from my family in order to establish an adult life. Though, with my attachment, I have found I still do cling to my father rather than my mother.