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Infancy - Allocare
Allocare - Any care that is not mom or dad – day care, aunt, etc When I was born, I had three older siblings and they all took care of me and each other when my parents weren't around. My sister, 10 years older than me, knew to take care of me and how to watch over me. -
Infancy - Social Interaction Approach
Social Interaction approach - infants learn through surrounding interaction with other humans. When I was born, it did not take me very long to learn to talk. This is due to the fact that I had three older siblings and they were all homeschooled, so that meant that we were all together all the time and I would listen to them communicate and I would try and replicate the sounds they were making until eventually I learned how to speak for myself and understand what I was saying. -
Early Childhood - Animism
Animism - the belief that natural objects and phenomena are alive in the way that humans are When I was really little, I didn't understand that my pets were not human and so I viewed them as my friends. For example, when one of my dogs got in trouble and was sent to the crate, I would feel bad that they were all alone and being punished, so I would go sit in the crate with them. I thought that they possessed human emotion and that since when I got in trouble, I was lonely, my pets would be too. -
Early Childhood - Irreversibility
Irreversibility - that once something happens, it can never go back to what it used to be. It will remain changed no matter what When I moved to Florida, I was only 5 years old. So, when I saw my old home for the last time and I moved to Florida, I thought that I would never see Virginia, where I came from, ever again. . Even when we went back to finish up moving and getting the old house ready to sell, I refused to look around or act normal because I felt like my home was already gone. -
Middle Childhood - Gender Schema
Gender schema - Children cognitive concept or general belief about sex differences 2nd grade and 7 years old, I loved having friends, but only girls. I thought boys were gross and had germs, so when the boys wanted to play with me on the playground, I would run away. I only wanted to hang out with girls because I thought boys were weird. -
Middle Childhood - Prosocial behavior
Prosocial behavior - Extending helpfulness and kindness without any obvious benefit to oneself When I was little, I learned from my parents to try my best and help everyone even when I knew I wasn't going to get a reward for it. In fact, I would try to not be noticed doing good things because I felt then it wasn't a true good deed if I got recognition. -
Adolescence - Personal Fable
Personal fable - thinking that no one goes through anything as bad as you By the time I hit middle school, I developed a whoo is me attitude. I felt like no one around me except for my best friend at the time, who encouraged this mindset and acted the exact same, would understand me or the "terrible" things I was going through. I did all this for attention and made the situations in my life seem so much worse than they were so people would have sympathy for me. -
Adolescence - Adolescent perspective
Adolescent perspective - Not thinking things through and acting rashly on impulse.
One day, I just got frustrated with my hair and how it was getting in my way. So, I asked my mom to let me chop it off. She tried discouraging it, but I ended up cutting it off myself right then and there. I was so rash in my decision that just because my hair was frustrating me that day, it meant I had to cut it off.