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Babyhood, Early & Late Childhood, and Adolescence - Coggle Diagram

- - - - At Birth male infants are heavier
    - - rapid growth occurs during 12-15 months
      - slowest during 18-21 months for males
      - 21-24 months for females
    - - first tooth to erupt is the lower
        central incisor
      - lower and upper molars erupt during the first half of the second year
  - - - Interpret new experiences on the basis of their
        memories of previous ones
      - Understanding develops through sensory exploration and motor manipulation.
  - - - Early social experiences play a dominant role in the baby’s future social
        relationships and patterns of behavior
- - - - parts of the body grow, but at different rates
      - bones are still soft and can easily be deformed
      - The way people react has a strong effect on the way a child will feel about himself
  - - - capable of a kind of representation by means of his own acts
      - goes through at least five behavior patterns
        
        Deferred imitation
        
        Symbolic play
        
        Drawing
        
        Mental image
        
        Verbal evocation
      - “centered” in the
        child’s own behavior
  - - - The kind of social contacts young children have is important
    - - Children’s Emotions
        
        Early childhood is characterized by heightened emotionality
        
        usually felt more strongly and expressed more openly than those of adults.
      - Children’s Fear
        
        two-year olds, common sources of fear are noise, objects that make noise, and
        strange objects, persons and situations
        
        four year olds manifest fear of darkness,
        imaginary creatures, and being alone
- - - - Children are able to respond to a number of individuals
    - - begin to form friendships within the context of the peer group.
    - - Emotions are developed in the context of social groups.
      - children learn what
        it (the family) expects and what it rejects.
- - - - Achieving emotional independence
  - - - adjustments must be made to achieve the goal of preparing themselves for adult
        patterns of socialization.
      - peer-group acceptance is very important to an adolescent
    - - adolescent emotions are often intense, uncontrolled
        
        Emotional
        maturity is said to have been achieved if the individual does not “explode,”
      - Adolescence has been thought of as a period of “storm and stress”