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2.2 Niche-Picking
My families came from a long line of French and Italian culinary chefs; I inherited the genotype for cooking & baking. A phenotype is a characteristic a genotype can be observed. My niche-picking environment is my family’s kitchen, because it was a place that I express my passion for baking and a place that I feel is a compatible and stimulating place that I could express myself easily. My passion and parents ability to support made it easier for me to do what I love. -
7.1- Transition to Middle School
Transitioning from elementary school where I was top dog because I was one the oldest kids in school to a little guppy at my secondary school was stressful. The change from having one teacher all day to now having seven teachers in middle school, where I was expected to be more independent and responsible for my own assignments as well as other commitments. A positive aspect of my transition to middle school, made me feel more grown up and more freedom to explore new opportunities/friendships. -
3.3- True Versus Selves
In middle school, I wanted to be able to pass all of my classes, however with my dyslexia, general anxiety disorder, and other learning disabilities I feared that I might fail classes, which would mean that I would have to repeat the 7th grade. My goals and fears above are aspects of the ideal or imagined self is known as possible selves. -
3.1- Imaginary Audience
In middle school, I felt that nobody else could possible understand how awful it was to be made fun of because I my parents couldn’t afford to buy hearing aids for me, so I stuck with two interpreters in class which had me feel that I was always “onstage.” The feeling of being “onstage” is the imaginary audience egocentrism aspect of attention-getting behavior. I was able to conclude using hypothetical-deductive reasoning, the reason people made fun of because my personal uniqueness of being HH. -
4.1- Gender-typed behavior
On my friend's birthday, she once told me a story about at her birthday the girls who were using the technique of play at her birthday party. When they were on the playground equipment at McDonald's they were pretending to be princesses while the boys at the party were the dragons in the moat. This is an example of play because the girls were using their imagination to create something other worldly for their entertainment. -
1.1 Entering Adolescence
At the age of thirteen, I started my transition in an adolescent. This was the year I hit puberty. There where several obvious changes during this teenager years. I had growth spurt of a good eight within a year. I stayed up later and slept in as often as I could. I was able to understand concepts and process faster. I became more independent and started to spend time thinking about girls. I agree that my transition to adolescence matched the described on pages 17-18 of the text. -
2.1- Typical Maturer
At age 14, my breast started to develop which a secondary sexual characteristic of the Gonadarche phrase. Looking back at the family pictures, I realized that I started my grow a little bit around 9 years old, then had my major growth spurt at age 12. My sexual maturation included a normal age of menarche to start and my hips becoming wider. On occasional I tested mom’s rules, however I had no behavior problems. No precocious puberty for me. I was never tempted/influenced by peer pressure. -
6.1- parent adolescent conflict.
For the most part, I had very a low conflict level during my adolescence years with my mom because I was somewhat of a goody two shoes who shared many of the same valves which is common despite of the inaccurate stereotype of the so-called generation gap. When I was child, and was told I couldn’t go out because “I said so” worked however, as a teenager I challenged my mom asking the exact reason why I cannot. Except for the one time I didn’t listen, the majority of our fights lasted less 10 mins -
3.2- Fluctuation
I was a teenager who was happy one minute, yelling next minute, and five minutes later laughing it off. The self-fluctuating change in moods that adolescents experience across situations and times is referred to as “the barometric self.” I normally became mad when someone said something negative about me, so in order to protect myself I stood up and fought back which resulted in me to become angry. I learned the best way for me to cool off is to walk it off or go to my room to listen to music. -
7.3- Intrinsic Motivation
School was always difficult for me about of my dyslexia; from young age teachers always set lower academic standards for me. However, I was a very stubborn, self-determined child who wanted to prove to myself that just because I have a disability does not mean that I cannot success in school. When I started 8th grade, I started to take responsibility for my own learning. Despite having to work twice as hard as my peers at school, I found the challenge of getting straight A’s very self-rewarding. -
6.3- Intimacy
I grew up in a small town in California, where being gay, lesbian or bisexual are not accepted. Just like the typical adolescent, I was trying to figure out who I was. I afraid to come out of the closet, but felt that I needed to have someone that I could disclose personal information about myself. So, I decided to tell my best male friend of one year that I am lesbian. Because I knew of the close, trusting relationship I had with him I felt able to share to this information with him. -
4.2- Non- gender typed behavior
Once when I was young, I witnessed a girl in a physical altercation with another girl. While this is uncommon for girls, that does not mean that it does not happen at all. In fact, there are different scenarios and situations that can lead to a girl getting into a fight. The normal stereotype is that boys are more likey to get into altercations than women. Though this is statistically true, it does not reign true for everyone. -
1.2 Emerging Adulthood
At age of seventeen, I started emerging into adulthood. My junior year, I started to take on obligations/responsibility, had my first paid job as a special needs assistant at my high school. Opened my first saving account for financial expenses, I will have in the future. I explored more about who I am as a person and my sexuality identity by dating those with similar interests. My transition to adulthood match the match the transition to adolescence described on pages 19-22 of the text. -
6.2- Companionship/Simulation
One day after school during our junior year of school, my friend Alexandra and I went back to my house to cook. Something we enjoyed doing together. We decided to make lasagna. After the timer went off, I took the lasagna out of the oven with one hand, long story short, and the lasagna spilling everywhere. Still to this day, every time we cook anything Alex and I, laugh about the lasagna mishap. -
8.1- Rite of Passage
Growing up in the U.S.A. there is no common formal ceremony that marked the transition from adolescence to adulthood. However, I feel that the day I got my driver’s license was my rite-of-passage. Getting my driver’s license in my opinion is the point where I took adult responsibilities and practices that come with having a car including: paying for car payments, insurance, and gas. I feel that my driver’s license marks the transition to adulthood was my rite of passage loosely matches the text. -
7.2- Transition to College
Just like the transition of elementary to middle school, there was a sense of being the guppy in the new bigger pond was stressful. One of the major changes that I noticed in college that did not apply previous transitions was that my peers were from more diverse geographical and ethnical backgrounds. I had the opportunity to take classes I wanted not what was required. The increased freedom which I could spend anyway I wished was nice. I did become extremely overwhelmed with workload excepted.
