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The summer of senior year Belinda's dad got a job offer in New York where they'd move beginning of August.

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Here lies Belinda Velasquez, she was loved by all but one. Throughout her life, she enjoyed several accomplishments and overcame adversities that no one could have predicted. Unfortunately, Jezebel enjoyed the last laugh, overcome with spite and jealousy, she took Belinda's life in the parking lot where they shared their first cigarette. (The cigarette was laced btw :))
(02/01/2002) - (04/20/2021)

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Paine's article states that moving children constantly in the care system would not reduce externalizing problems for the child unless they have been in the system for less than 400 days.

(Paine, Anthony, & Shelton, 2021)

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Belinda was put into foster care at a young age. She spent time in several different foster homes, and this led to her developing a difficulty in getting emotionally attached to her adopted family.

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After breaking things off with Jezebel, she becomes friends with a group of Hispanic girls from her Spanish club. While doing so she establishes a more positive image of herself and learns more about her culture.
(Sigelman & Rider, 2018)

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Belinda joined a Spanish club in her school to get to know more about her culture.

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By Belinda's 10th and 11th year of high school she was able to overcome her eating disorder. She also took a turn for the best breaking off ties to Jezebel and surrounding herself with positive people.

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-James Marcia developed an interview procedure to assess where an adolescent is in the process of identity formation.
-Diffusion status has no crisis and no commitment.
-At this point, Belinda has yet to develop a set path of where she wants her life to go.

(Sigelman & Rider, 2018)

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-As Belinda develops an eating disorder, she begins to suffer from anorexia nervosa.
-Anorexia nervosa is a life threatening eating disorder characterized by failure to maintain a normal weight.

(Sigelman & Rider, 2018)

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While in high school, Belinda's grades start to drop due to negative influences i.e., Jezebel and lack of motivation.

(Sigelman & Rider, 2018)

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-Eating disorders may stem from factors like genetics and may be accompanied by conditions such as depression (National Alliance on Mental Illness).

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Belinda begins to realize that Jezebel is not the best kind of person. She wants to start distancing herself from Jezebel, but finds difficulties in doing that because she has formed an attachment to her. This is based on John Bowlby's attachment theory.

(Sigelman & Rider, 2018)

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Belinda has started to show that she has low self esteem. This has triggered her depressing resulting in Belinda starting to develop an eating disorder.

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As mentioned previously, Belinda was a late bloomer and as all of the other girls around her are blossoming, she hasn't. Her idea of having an imaginary audience causes her to become paranoid about what other people think of her.

(Sigelman & Rider, 2018)

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Belinda grew up being very dependent to an imaginary friend named Billy.

Billy is a gremlin :)

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-Episodic memory is a type of explicit memory consisting of specific episodes that one has experienced.
-As Belinda moves through her education, episodic memory may become more important since she can take what she learned from previous classes and apply it to current.

(Sigelman & Rider, 2018)

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Belinda has shown adolescent egocentrism which shows why she has been choosing to make any choice she wants, regardless if it is negative or positive.

(Sigelman & Rider, 2018)

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Formal operations stage (roughly 11 and beyond)

decontextualizing

adolescent egocentrism

personal fable

hypothetical-deductive reasoning

(Sigelman & Rider, 204)

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Belinda grew up in a safe and structured home. However, the more negative influence that Jezebel has on her begins to show in the home. This correlates with Skinner's theory that good and bad habits form through operant conditioning.

(Sigelman & Rider, 2018).

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As she is entering high school, Belinda befriends Jezebel. Jezebel is a junior at their high school who is a bad influence on Belinda. Eventually, after a few times hanging out, Belinda starts smoking cigarettes and participating in underage drinking.

(Sigelman & Rider, 2018)

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Belinda has started to noticed that the girls in her grade have begun to have their first menstrual leaving her confused as to why she has not started yet

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-Belinda's developmental level is "adolescent".
-This developmental level runs from ages 10 to 18 and during this time, puberty begins to occur.

(Sigelman & Rider, 2018).

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-As Belinda grows up, she learns many different behaviors and/or skills through observational learning.
-Albert Bandura believed that observational learning was more of a cognitive form of learning since learners must pay attention, construct and remember mental representations.

(Sigelman & Rider, 2018).

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-Belinda inherited nearsightedness, she started wearing glasses at the age of 7

-She is susceptible to depression due to her biological father's bloodline

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National Alliance on Mental Illness. (n. d.). Eating Disorders. https://nami.org/About-Mental-Illness/Mental-Health-Conditions/Eating-Disorders

Paine, A. L., Fahey, K., Anthony, R. E., & Shelton, K. H. (2021). Early adversity predicts adoptees’ enduring emotional and behavioral problems in childhood. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 30(5), 721–732. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01553-0

Sigelman, C.K., & Rider, E.A. (2018). Lifespan Human Development, (9th ed). Cengage.

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10-year-old Puerto Rican female

Adopted at the age of 7 by a white family in Dallas, Texas

Has 2 siblings: older brother, Ronny (17), and younger sister, Emily (8)

Parents: Mother(Melissa) and Father(Jeremy)

Belinda's parents are pastors and are very religious

Goes through puberty at a later age than normal