Psych-Development Flashcards
Sensorimotor
Birth - 2 years
Understands world through senses and actions
The infant explores the world through direct sensory and motor contact. Object permanence and separation anxiety develop during this stage.
Transitional object
A comfort object or security blanket that is used to provide psychological comfort, especially in unusual or unique situations, or at bedtime for children. They are the most common in toddlers and pre-school children, but school aged children often reject them as too “babyish” even if they secretly still have an affection for their object (blanket, pillow, stuffed animal).
II: Authority and Social Order
School age
Orientation towards fixed rules. The purpose of morality is maintaining the social order. Interpersonal accord is expanded to include the entire society
12-15 month milestones
Walks unassisted
(note you would be concerned if child has not walked by 18 months)
Shows separation anxiety (SHOULD BE GONE BY 3 YEARS OF AGE)
Says first words
Shows object permanence
Note between 13 and 18 months (15 months) you will start to recognise yourself in the mirror
associative play
3-4
Interacts with others, preference of people, mixed sex groups
6 year milestones
Tie shoelaces and ride a 2 wheel bicycle
Print letters (writing)
Copy a triangle
Begin moral development
Begin understanding the finality of death
Begins reading
Begins thinking logically
School aged children (6-12 years)
Prefer acting with same gendered children and parent
Little interest in sexual issues (feelings are latent or dormant)
Moral sense of right and wrong develops
Emphasis on rule based thinking and games
Industrious (stickers, prizes)
Capacity for logical through and conservation/ seriation
Metacognition (thinking about thinking) begins later
Complex motor development continues (sports)
Integrity vs Despair
> 65
7-11 month milestones
Crawls on hands and knees
Pull to stand
Transfer toys between hands
Tick up toys with “pincer” grasp - 10mo
Stranger anxiety
Social games such as “peekaboo” and waves “bye bye”
Imitates sounds and uses gestures
Responds to name and simple instructions
Preconventional Morality
Before age 9, children begin to show morality to avoid punishment or gain reward
2 year milestones
Kicks a ball Balances on one foot for 1 second Stacks 6 blocks Feeds self with spoon Negativity “no” and tantrums Parallel play 250 words in 2 word sentences Names body parts and objects
I. Self Interest
Pre-school
Interest shifts to rewards rather than punishments- effort is made to secure greatest benefit for onset
Identity vs Role Confusion
13-18 years
Unoccupied play
The random movements that infants make with no clear purpose is the beginning of play
Intimacy vs Isolation
18-40
Concrete operational
7-12 years
Understands world through logical thinking and categories.
The child can think logically about concrete objects and thus can add and subtract. The child also understands conservation.
Metacognition
The ability to think about your thinking (“I do tend to have a a lot of preservative thoughts” or “I have unconscious bias”). This is a very high level cognitive process which begins to develop at the end of school age
Freud Anal
Anal
2-3
The child learns to respond to some of the demands of society (such as bowels and bladder)
Freud Genital
Genital
11-adult
The growing adolescent shakes off old dependencies and learns to deal maturely with the opposite sex
Freud Phallic
Phallic
3-7
The child learns to realize the differences between males and females and become aware of sexuality