Final Project
From Womb to Tomb
Matthew Ridge
Concordia University: MHS 555
Age: Birth-24 months
From Womb to Tomb
Biological Process
Age: Birth-24 months
 I was born February 29, 1988.
 I had blond hair and blue eyes.
 Phenotype: (Santrock, 2012).
 At 6 month old I was able to walk.
 Locomotion (Santrock, 2012)
Cognitive Process
Age: Birth-24 months
 Showing emotions with parents interactions.
 Primary emotions: include surprise, interest, joy, anger, sadness,
fear, and disgust (Santrock, 2012).
Socioemotional Process
Age: Birth-24 months
 I looked up to my older brother and would follow his actions
and where ever he would go.
 I was a social butterfly and very easy going at this age.
 Temperament (Santrock, 2012).
 Chess and Thomas’ classification
 Easy child (Santrock, 2012).
Age:2-5 years
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BIOLOGICAL PROCESS
AGE: 2-5 years
 At the age of two I would have been considered a runner, or I
would dart off into the street.
 I was very energetic and was like an energizer bunny.
 Autonomy versus shame and doubt (Santrock, 2012).
 Traits that would describe me would be: athletic, a good
person, and happy.
 Self esteem
 Self concept
Cognitive process
age 2-5 years
 Started talking age 2 ½ years of age
 Started Pre-school
 Learned

Hand motions
 Songs
 Arts and crafts
 Follow directions
 Socially active with other students
 Early childhood process of development (Santrock, 2012)
Socioemotional process
age: 2-5 years
 Felt I fit in with other classmates
 Erickson’s theory; intuition versus guilt.
 Wanting to be like my dad
 Mimicking my fathers actions
 Social Cognitive theory (Santrock, 2012)
Age: 6-11
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Biological process
age: 6-11 years
 Very athletic and engaged in sports.
 Sports included: football, swim team, and baseball.
 Growing at a slower rate than my friends.
 Physical descriptions
Cognitive process
age:6-11 years
 Started in public school.
 I had difficult reading capabilities. This caused difficulty in
school.
 Enrolled in speech and reading classes.
 Industry versus inferiority (Santrock, 2012)
Socioemotional process
age: 6-11 years
 Felt I was part of the “cool” or the “in” crowed.
 Thought I had my first girlfriend.
 Entry to romantic attractions and affiliations (Santrock, 2012).
Age:12-15
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Biological process
age: 12-15 years
 Overweight I would have considered myself “chubby” .
 Overweight children (Santrock, 2012)
 (American academy of Children, 2011).
 Still playing football. Made the basketball team because of
increased athletic capabilities.
 Adolescents health (Santrock, 2012)
 Finally reaching puberty at a late age.
 The growth from puberty helped with being overweight.
 Sexual mutation, height, and weight (Santrock, 2012)
Cognitive process
age: 12-15 years
 Enrolled into public high school.
 Got out of reading classes.
 Used note cards to block from seeing any other lines while
reading. I was able to focus on the information I was absorbing.
 Information process theory (Santrock, 2012).
 Started taking on responsibilities on the dairy.
 Vygotsky’s theory of sociocultural approach/activities (Santrock,
2012).
Socioemotional process
age:12-15 years
 Felt I was overweight “Chubby” and was shy around girls.
 Body image (Santrock, 2012).
 Felt I was left out of the family because I was the middle
child.
 To receive attention I joined dance class.
 Was made fun of because of my late puberty and high voice
while being in high school.
Age 16-19
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Biological process
age: 16-19 years
 Still playing football/ increasing in athletic capability.
 Gaining muscle mass and weight.
 Started balding.
Cognitive process
age: 16-19
 Figured out the best way for me to learn.
 Became more organized in my studies
 Got accepted into college.
 Started focusing on health as my area of study.
 My family no longer owned a dairy and had to look elsewhere
for a future career.
 Crisis development change (Santrock, 2012).
Socioemotional process
age: 16-19
 Finally filling more self confident.
 I now like my body image
 Social contact with peers
 First real girlfriend.
 Long distance relationship
 Consolidating dyadic romantic bonds (Santrock, 2012)
 Met my future wife.
 Secure attachment style (Santrock, 2012)
Age: 20’s
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Biological process
20’s
 Loss of weight slimming back down after football.
 Able to perform different exercise types because of athletic
nature.
 Seeing more definition in muscle.
 Now there is more lean muscle than bulk muscle.
 Exercising and dieting (Santrock, 2012)
Cognitive process
20’s
 I was accepted into my Masters program.
 Enjoyed solving critical problems at work.
 Higher level of formal operational thinking (Santrock, 2012)
 Understanding how my body reacts to new exercises.
 Improving work flow at work.
 Completed leadership classes.
Socioemotional process
20’s
 I got married on April 22, 2012.
 Sternberg’s triangular theory of love (Santrock, 2012
 Began to be more religious.
 Connecting my life more to God and spirituality.
Age: 30’s
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Biological process
30’s
 Gaining weight.
 Less exercising
 Start to loose some of my athletic capabilities.
 Stiffening of joints
 Shoulders
 Knees
Cognitive process
30’s
 Teaching my children morals.
 What is the difference between right and wrong.
 Proactive strategies (Santrock, 2012)
Socioemotional process
30’s
 Developing a new relationship with my children.
 Child growth and development.
 Children transitioning from early childhood/infancy to adolescents.
Age: 40’s
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Biological process
40’s
 Slowing of metabolism.
 Loss of appetite compared to when I was in my twenties.
 With the slowing of my metabolism, my body will not be craving
as much food intake.
 Will start to take longer getting my body going in the
morning.
 Not be able to jump out of bed and go.
 Takes longer to wake up.
Cognitive process
40’s
 Supervisor
 Have my own team and lead.
 Middle adulthood (Santrock, 2012)
 Manager
 Look over whole facility.
 Parenting adolescent children.
 Authoritative parenting (Santrock, 2012).
Socioemotional process
40’s
 Children reaching late adolescents.
 Children now will be in high school.
 Children entering early adult hood.
 Children going off to college.
 Children bringing home significant others.
Age:50’s
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Biological process
50’s
 I will start to have more health issues including:
 muscle decreasing
 Less energy
 Needing more sleep
 I am sure my lack of sleep will catch up to me around this time of
my life.
Cognitive process
50’s
 Changing relationships with peers.
 Coping with new stressors that come with my age and
lifestyle changes.
 Looking at life in a different manner.
 Understanding that now I will have less year ahead of me in the
physical life than I do behind me.
 Religion and health, lifestyle issues/social networks/coping with
stress (Santrock, 2012).
Socioemotional process
50’s
 Becoming more selective with my friends.
 Starting to find my inner circle of friends.
 Finding attachments to friends and families with common
economical issues.
 Socioemotional selectivity theory (Santrock, 2012).
Age: 60
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Biological process
60’s
 Start to have chronic arthritis.
 Knees
 Wrist
 Chronic disorders (Santrock, 2012).
Cognitive process
60’s
 Start to think about retirement.
 Life changing events
 How am I going to stay active?
 Activity theory (Santrock, 2012)
 Volunteer work
 (Dulin, Gavala, Stephens, Kostick & McDonald, 2012).
 What will benefit myself and my spouse?
 (Renzulli, 2013).
Socioemotional process
60’s
 Building better relationships with people.
 Age and happiness (Santrock, 2012).
 Social relationships being happiness.
 (Dulin, Gavala, Stephens, Kostick & McDonald, 2012).
Age 70’s
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Biological process 70’s
 Health decreasing from lower levels of activity.
 Less physical activity
 Less social activities
 (Weisser, 2014).
Cognitive process
70’s
 Looking for my sense of meaning in life from religion.
 Higher levels of: self-esteem, satisfaction, and optimism
 (Santrock, 2012).
 Staying mentally active.
 Brain games
 (Evers, Klusmann, Schwarzer & Heuser, 2011).
Socioemotional process
70’s
 Reflect on life.
 Past experiences
 How successful was I?
 Integrity versus despair (Santrock, 2012).
 Grandchildren reaching adulthood.
 Relationship with grandchildren and/or great grandchildren.
Age:80’s
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Biological process
80’s and beyond
 Start to loose bone tissues.
 Osteoporosis losing bone/muscle (Santrock, 2012).
 Having to stay active.
 My body is going to want to rest and will be weaker than before.

(Weisser, 2014).
Cognitive process
80’s and beyond
 Using religion to help with health disparities.
 Anxiety
 Depression
 Health outcomes
 Quality of life
 (Chen & Haung, 2012).
Socioemotional process
80’s and beyond
 Understanding that I will be challenged with death.
 Possible friends death
 Possible spouse death
 Grieving of family members and friends deaths.
 How I will react to the death of loved ones?
 Dimensions of grieving (Santrock, 2012).
References:
 American Academy of Children &Adolescent Psychiatry. (2011, march). Obesity
in children and
teens. Retrieved from
http://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Facts_for_Families/F
acts_for_Famil ies_Pages/Obesity_In_Children_And_Teens_79.aspx
 Dulin, P. L., Gavala, J., Stephens, C., Kostick, M., & McDonald, J. (2012).
Volunteering
predicts happiness among older Māori and non-Māori in the
New Zealand health,
work, and retirement longitudinal study. Aging &
Mental Health, 16(5), 617-624. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2011.641518
 Evers, A., Klusmann, V., Schwarzer, R., & Heuser, I. (2011). Improving cognition
by adherence to physical or mental exercise: A moderated mediation
analysis.
Aging & Mental Health 15(4), 446-455.
doi:10.1080/13607863.2010.543657
References continued:
 Huang, C., Hsu, M., & Chen, T. (2012). An exploratory study of
religious involvement as a moderator between anxiety,
depressive symptoms and quality of life outcomes of
older adults. Journal Of Clinical Nursing, 21(5/6),
609-619.
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03412.x
 Renzulli, K. (2013). The Talk: Get Your Spouse on the Same Page
About Retirement. Money, 42(9), 26.
 Santrock, J. (2012). A topical approach to Life-Span
development. (6th ed.). New York : McGraw-Hill.
 Weisser, C. (2014). The Happy Together Quiz. Money, 43(2), 78.