Developmental
People during the course of their lives go numerous transformations as adults and youngsters. During a person’s existence, they will go through several of clear cognitive, social, physical, and character changes. Annie, who’s 13 years of age adolescent and in 6th grade, starts on her puberty phase following the childhood phase ending. She’s commonly categorized as a “teenager” or “young adult” by a majority of people. Ages of youth are from 13 years of age to 21 years of age. Noticeably, Annie, like a lot of other adolescent girls during this phase, comes across a lot of transformation in her life as she gets ready to mature. Throughout this period in Annie’s existence, she’ll commence puberty bringing on many emotional, physical and cognitive changes to her personality and body. “Puberty” is the moment in the maturity at which the person is actually able to sexually reproduce. (Lahey, 2010, p.334). A lot of obvious and physical transformations take place throughout puberty. As a result, Annie’s body will start developing, because of the rise in estrogen in her body.
Annie’s Physical Transformation The biggest and obvious developmental change in Annie’s body will be growth spurts. Throughout this time, she can grow anywhere from 8 inches and 12 inches in height, and its normal for eating routines to go from eating little portions to eating larger portions. As Annie begins to consume larger portions of food, it causes her body to start to physically changing. Different parts of her body will become pronounced; she might even start on a menstrual cycle at that point. The hormones produced by her body will change as puberty starts; like growing pubic hair, and she might be self-conscious about these things and how others look at her. Erickson (1963) disputed that a child’s premature feeling of individuality comes to some extent “unglued” because a mixture of fast body growth and sexual changes of puberty. Even though each individual grows and develops in a
Annie’s Physical Transformation The biggest and obvious developmental change in Annie’s body will be growth spurts. Throughout this time, she can grow anywhere from 8 inches and 12 inches in height, and its normal for eating routines to go from eating little portions to eating larger portions. As Annie begins to consume larger portions of food, it causes her body to start to physically changing. Different parts of her body will become pronounced; she might even start on a menstrual cycle at that point. The hormones produced by her body will change as puberty starts; like growing pubic hair, and she might be self-conscious about these things and how others look at her. Erickson (1963) disputed that a child’s premature feeling of individuality comes to some extent “unglued” because a mixture of fast body growth and sexual changes of puberty. Even though each individual grows and develops in a
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