Life stages
The first year of life where a human is completely dependent on others.
What is Infancy?
Refusing to believe or acknowledge a painful or obvious reality.
What is Denial?
Basic survival requirements like food, water, and oxygen.
What are Physiological Needs?
A progressive brain disorder causing memory loss and cognitive decline.
What is Alzheimer’s Disease?
100: The final stage of grief where a person finds a sense of peace.
What is Acceptance?
The stage between 12 and 18 years old often marked by puberty and identity seeking.
What is Adolescence?
Retreating to an earlier, more childlike developmental stage when under stress.
What is Regression?
The need to feel secure and free from fear or physical danger.
What is Safety?
A disease that cannot be cured and is expected to lead to death.
What is Terminal Illness?
200: Intellectual processes like thinking, memory, and judgment.
What is Cognitive?
This life stage occurs between ages 19 and 40 and focuses on independence and career.
What is Early Adulthood?
Shifting an emotional reaction from its original target to a less threatening substitute.
What is Displacement?
The level of Maslow's hierarchy that involves friendship, love, and belonging
What is Social?
The thickening and hardening of artery walls, commonly seen in late adulthood.
What is Arteriosclerosis?
300: A conscious, intentional effort to ignore or push away a problem.
What is Suppression?
The stage from ages 6 to 12 where peer groups and school become primary focuses.
What is Late Childhood?
Attributing your own unacceptable thoughts or feelings onto someone else.
What is Projection?
The highest level of human need where one reaches their full potential.
What is Self-Actualization?
: Care designed to provide comfort rather than a cure for the dying.
What is Hospice?
A stage of grief where a person tries to make deals to delay the inevitable
What is Bargaining?
Starting at age 65, this stage involves retirement and adapting to physical decline.
What is Late Adulthood?
Overachieving in one area to make up for a perceived weakness in another.
What is Compensation?
The feeling of fulfillment or pleasure experienced when a goal is reached.
What is Satisfaction
500: The harmful or improper use of drugs or alcohol.
What is Chemical Abuse?
The mental or emotional strain caused by stress or unmet needs.
What is Tension?