I'm Just a Kid (& Life is a Nightmare)
These stages of enhanced neuroplasticity are all happening during my first years of life - just don't prune too quickly!
Critical periods
Where'd my mom go?! She left the room and I assume she's disappeared, illustrating this cognitive error.
Lack of object permanence
Konrad Lorenz was a father figure to a flock of geese, illustrating this term - the biological drive for social relationships.
Imprinting
He's post-critical period and this neurological malleability is waaaay down. Learning the violin is going to be quite difficult at this point.
Neuroplasticity
As I progress through the education system, I'm acquiring these cognitive skills by high school - the ability to thing logically and abstractly about hypothetical situations.
Formal operational
Ga-ga, goo-goo, da-da, ma-ma! I'm in this stage of linguistic development, using phonemes from my native language.
Babbling
People who are assigned male at birth receive this piece of genetic information from their dad, which includes the SRY gene to trigger testes formation in utero.
Y Chromosome
Tick-tock, buddy! According to this, Skinner's blowing past his window to marry and have a kid. 35 is the new 27?
Social clock
As I'm developing my cognitive understanding of the world around me, I'll spend a lot of time _____ & _____ my schema - interpreting and reinterpreting my cognitive understanding of how to act in novel situations.
Assimilating and accommodating
I'm just a wittle baby!!! I spend almost all of my time concerned with and being impacted by this ecological social system.
Microsystem
I'm not a normal dad, I'm a cool dad! No rules, no expectations, just love, warmth, and respect. My parenting strategy is best described as
Permissive (indulgent)
Skinner's parents had high, strict expectations but a lot of love, exhibiting this developmental psych term. Perhaps that's why he's famously so stable and well-adjusted?
Authoritative parenting
In this stage of identity development, I'm not sure who I want to be, but all my friends are on the soccer team. Soccer it is!
Foreclosure
I'm rolling, then sitting, then crawling, then walking - these specific skills typically develop during the first years of my life.
Gross motor skills
I'm watching my dad loooove watching the Big Game and refusing to help with the dishes. Through modeling and observational learning, he's teaching me these socially constructed norms for behavior.
Gender roles
Skinner is SO back on Hinge to see if he can sort out this psychosocial stage. Thoughts and prayers.
Intimacy vs. isolation
I'm spending most of middle school in this Eriksonian phase of psychosocial development - I have more friends than most of my peers, but they're all better at me in math. SOS!
Industry (competence) vs. inferiority
WAAAAHHHH!! I'm fussy, volatile, emotional, and CERTAINLY not going to bed when you want me to. I'm exhibiting this version of genetically inherited automatic reactivity to the world around me.
Difficult temperament
Skinner was all exploring all over the place in college (in a fun way): pre-med, neuro, Spanish, French, art history, physics TA, intramural soccer, high school tutor - big ________ vibes.
Moratorium