Lifespan Development Timeline

Lifespan Development Timeline

Emily Richardson September 17th, 2015

Early Adulthood

(late teens-30's)

Middle Adulthood

(40-60 years)

Late Adulthood

(60+ years)

Adolescence

(10/12-18/21 years)

Middle and late Childhood

(6-11 years)

Early Childhood

(2-6 years)

Infancy

(birth-24 months)

Prenatal Period

(conception-birth)

Life expectancy- 92.54 years

• brain capabilities
• behavioural capabilities
• organism growth

• language development
• symbolic thought
• social learning
• sensorimotor coordination

• more self-sufficiency
• care for themselves
• school readiness skills
• peer interaction

• career satisfaction
• moulding next generation
• expanding personal and social involvement and responsibility

• establishing personal and financial independance
• career development
• marriage, family, children

• "young-old"- potential for physical and cognitive health
• "oldest-old"- potential for decline in physical and cognitive condition

• reading
• writing
• math
• world experience
• self-control increases

• height/weight changes
• puberty
• pursuit of independance
• pursuit of identity
• independant relationships

Normative Age-graded event-

learning to walk (9-11 months).

Multidirectional

Getting married/ having kids.

*Increase in nurturing skills, life experience and feeling of self-worth.

*Decrease in free-time and self-exploration.

History graded event-

invention of the Iphone (June 29, 2007, age 9).

Multidimensional

B: possible decline in body function

C: changes in views/ opinions (ex. politics, teen pregnancy, environment), greater intelligence for raising next generation

S: accepting the self/ career/ life

Multidimensional

B: body growth, developing motor skills

C: understands basic needs for themselves, greater independance from parents

S: emerging personality, more peer interaction

Multidimensional

B: puberty (height, weight, body hair, voice, muscle growth)

C: develops more concrete thinking patterns, problem solving skills, work ethic, increased vocabulary

S: makes own friends, explores identity and independence

Prediction:

I predict that I will continue to experience normative age graded events until late adulthood, where maintaining physical and cognitive skills become more important than growing them.

Normative Age-graded event-

Ontario legal drinking (age 19).

Multidirectional

Wanting to care for themsevles.

*Increase in personal life skills, independence and confidence.

*Decrease in hygiene or organization (not done as well as parents do for them).

Multidirectional

Pursuit of identity.

*Increase in confidence, independence and world experience

*Decrease in ability to think abstractly.

Memory:

I remember holding my youngest brother Jack for the first time on January 31st, 2005, the day after he was born. I was 6 and a half years old. I went into the NICU with my mom, sat on a wooden rocking chair, and used a tweety bird blanket to help hold him. I remember I was nervous because he wasn't completely healthy and was so little.

History graded event-

9/11 terrorist attack, World Trade Center, New York (2001, age 3).

Normative Age-graded event-

starting highschool (age 14).

Ontario Driver's License (age 16).

Getting period/ puberty (age 12/ grade 7).

History graded event-

shooting on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada (October 22, 2014, age 16).

Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Connecticut (2012, age 14).

Predictions:

marriage (age 25-32)

having kids (age 29-35)

cognitive advances (furthering knowledge in post secondary school, age 18+)

Socio-emotional improvements (confidence, more developed sense of self, age 18+)

I predict I will have plasticity to adapt to my changing life (ex. university, living on my own, marriage, children, career)

Memory:

I remember the day my brother Benjamin was born, on July 19th, 2001. I was just about to turn 3, three days later. My parents left for the hospital, so my grandparents came to stay at my house with me. After he was born, they took me to see them and I was wearing a dress. I remember standing in the door way of the hospital room and seeing my mom sitting up in her bed with the covers perfectly flat. My dad was standing near the left side of the bed. This memory used to be a video in my head but now it's only a picture.

Non-normative event-

Grandma's death (May 28th, 2014, age 15).

Trip to Europe (March 31- April 10 2015, age 16).

Memory:

One of my favourite memories is getting together every christmas with all of my family. We have Christmas Day at my dad's parents house and Boxing Day at my mom's parents house. I love the tradition and the feeling of all being together. Family christmas is something we've done all my life, so its a repeated memory every year.

Memory:

One memory that is very special to me is my trip to France and Spain. I went with the school when I was in grade 11 (age 16), from March 31 to April 10, 2015. It was my very first time travelling, getting a passport and my first time on a plane. I payed for most of the trip myself and was looking forward to it since grade 9. It will always be an amzing memory for me.

Memory:

A strong memory I have is of my Great Aunt Helen's funeral in September 2013, when I was 15 years old. That was the first time someone close to me family had died and I was old enough to understand it. My family and I sat in the very front row of the funeral and I really experienced death for the first time. Specifically, the memory of hearing her laughing on a video at the funeral will always stay with me. This memory is sad, but also happy because I can remember the time before she died.

Memory:

A clear memory that I have is driving to the Justin Timberlake concert in 2014 with my friend Ashleigh, dad and aunt. It was February 13th and we were driving under a small tunnel when my mom called my dad saying her mom, my grandma, was diagnosed with cancer. I remember looking out the window and seeing a gas station, and having tears welling up in my eyes. I was sad and scared but didn't really know much about what was going on with my grandma. This is a sad memory I have.

Conclusion:

Being in the adolescence period, I can conclude that I have strong biological, cognitive and socio-emotional progress, which means I am multidimensional. I assoiciate this with maturity (physically and mentally), well-rounded character traits and the ability to excell in school work.

Legend

_________

B --> Biological

C --> Cognitive

S --> Socio-emotional

--> past

--> future

Stages of development are colour coded. Anything belonged to that stage will have the same colour.