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IAN DANTE A.
ARCANGELES 1-A MAJOR IN ENGLISH
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1. Answer this question with learning partner. What are the implications
of these developmental tasks to your role as a facilitator of learning?
Let’s pay particular attention to the stages that correspond to schooling
– early childhood, middle and late childhood and adolescence.
Let’s do #1. Early Childhood – what are preschool teachers supposed to do

with preschoolers? Help them develop readiness for school and not to be
too academic in teaching approach. They ought to give much time for
preschoolers to play. Or perhaps help preschoolers develop school
readiness by integrating children’s games in school activities.
#2 – Middle and Late childhood
Answer:
Elementary school teachers ought to help their pupils by; teaching them
the fundamental skills of reading, writing and arithmetic shall be given
more attention. The child must formally exposed to the larger world and its
culture. Achievement becomes a more central theme of the child’s world
and encourage them to keep the good work they have done. And also,
Elementary teachers shall build a unique bond with their pupils as they
teach them; observe them in their study as they grow over the time.
#3 – Adolescence
Answer:
High school teachers ought to help their students by; the development of
their self or the rapid physical changes of the body. Through in preparing
them for insights about adolescence stage like; maturity, emotional
independence, masculine of feminine social role, preparing for marriage
and family, preparing for an economic career, acquiring values and an
ethical system to guide behavior. Lastly, the desiring and achieving socially
responsible behavior with these it would surely help the students to cope
up with the changes due to adolescence period.
BIG IDEAS
1. Complete this unfinished sentence.
Answer:
Developmental tasks are varied as we grow older. There are several stages
from infancy up to adulthood that we should cope and adjust to every gradual
changes that happens throughout our lifetime. We should be more aware of
our attitude, behavior and social role towards inner self and society. Lastly,
development task became more complicated as we grow older and
responsibility decreases as we reaches late maturity
IAN DANTE A. ARCANGELES 1-A MAJOR IN ENGLISH
2. Show the developmental stages by means of a diagram inclusive of the

ages. Write also the outstanding characteristics trait and developmental
task of each developmental stage
Answer:
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
Infancy and Early

Childhood Adolescence
Middle Childhood
o Acquiring o Desiring and
o Developing
concepts and achieving
concepts
language to socially
necessary for
describe social responsible
everyday living
and physical behavior
reality
Later Adulthood
Middle Adulthood
Early Adulthood
o Adjusting to
o Achieving adult
decreasing o Starting a
social and civic
strength and family
responsibility
health
TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING

1. Developmental tasks are only for the first 3 stages of human development.
Answer:
No because development as human being did not stop only during our adolescence
period. The later period of our lifetime must also be considered crucial in our
developmental task.
2. Failure of achieving developmental tasks in an earlier stage also means failure

for the learner to master the developmental task in the next stage.
Answer:
No because our past experiences and bad failure are the best lesson in our future.
We will be more aware to every changes happening to our lives.
3. Preschool age corresponds to early childhood stage.
Answer:
Correct.
4. Adolescence is middle and late childhood stage.
Answer:
No because adolescence is a different stage having different developmental task,

compared to early and late childhood.
5. Teenage is middle childhood.
Answer:
No. Teenage belongs to adolescence because it is the stage wherein we undergone

changes physically different from our childhood days.
6. Mastery of fundamental skills is a major concern during early childhood.
Answer:
No because fundamental skills must be given more attention during middle

childhood ages 6-12 years old.
7. Play is a great need of children in early childhood.
Answer:
No because great need of children for playing must be sustain during early
childhood.
8. Preparing children for school readiness is the major concern of middle

childhood.
Answer:
No preparedness for school readiness must be provided during early childhood.

TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING
1. Heredity exerts a greater influence on human development than

environment.
Answer:
No. Because environment exerts more of the influence in human development

especially nowadays that many of as nurtured and enhance our skills through other
people.
2. What has been experienced in the earlier stages of development can no

longer be changed.
Answer:
No. Because we should have gradual changes in every stages of our life concerning
human development when we encountered experiences that leads us to change our
insights and perspective.
3. From the perspective of life-span developmentalist, later experiences are the

key determinants of a person’s development.
Answer:
Correct.
RESEARCH
1. Read the published book The Nurture Assumption, by Judith Harris (1998).
(Done).
2. State in not more than 2 paragraphs the thesis of Judith Harris book.
Answer:
In my statement about the thesis of Judith Harris book is the idea that the
personality of adults is determined chiefly by the way they were raised by their
parents. She looks at studies which claim to show the influence of the parental
environment and claims that most fail to control for genetic influences. For example,
if aggressive parents are more likely to have aggressive children, this is not
necessarily evidence of parental example. It may also be that aggressiveness has
been passed down through the genes.
Indeed, many adopted children show little correlation with the personality of their
adoptive parents, and significant correlation with the natural parents who had no
part in their upbringing. The role of genetics in personality has long been accepted
in psychological research. However, even identical twins, who share the same genes,
are not exactly alike, so inheritance is not the only determinant of personality.
REFLECTION
1. Relate what you learned here to your personal development. Reflect on

your own personal development. What has helped you become the
person that you are now? Is what you have become a product of the
mere interaction of heredity and both environment? Or is what you
have become a product of both heredity and environment interacting
and what you have decided or determined yourself to become? (Self-
determination or freedom is a third factor). Write your reflections.
Answer:
I learned about the personal development of these topics; the developmental

stages, the interaction of heredity and environment or issues on human
development. With these topics it helps me to discover myself by means of
understanding how I often develop it through experiences of what I
encountered to my life. Since I was thinking about the past that I want to go
back but I can’t because it is no longer existing but then again as I know the
past serves as an experiences because every day we grow, we develop and
change by means of time flowing or the never ending time. My development
never ceases because I keep on learning and there is a change in my physical
aspects of a person. Furthermore, it helps me become the person that you are
now is looking at yourself and become with yourself which means be yourself.
In addition, for me I had become a product of both heredity and environment
interacting because since I was a kid I’m almost alike with my mother and
father with a mix of their physical body and face. But I had different
characteristics and these characteristics it’s from the influence of others or in
environment which I inhabited it since in the beginning of my early childhood
following the present adolescence. Because sometimes I see through myself as
a weather or mode changes and it goes on stable as I reach to my adolescence
period of time.
BIG IDEAS
Complete the sentence.
1. With regard to the nurture-nature, continuity-discontinuity and change-

ability controversies the wiser stand is
Answer:
Continuity-discontinuity because we develop continually, from birth to death,

being able to develop a skill throughout development (continuity) or do we
develop in stages, where development of a skill happens at a certain age-stage
only in that stage. It is the main of the wiser stand by means of extent
development involves gradual, cumulative change (continuity) or distinct
stages (discontinuity).

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IAN DANTE A.

ARCANGELES 1-A MAJOR IN ENGLISH

Let’s do #1. Early Childhood – what are preschool teachers supposed to do

#2 – Middle and Late childhood

1. Complete this unfinished sentence.

2. Show the developmental stages by means of a diagram inclusive of the

Infancy and Early

TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING

2. Failure of achieving developmental tasks in an earlier stage also means failure

3. Preschool age corresponds to early childhood stage.

4. Adolescence is middle and late childhood stage.

No because adolescence is a different stage having different developmental task,

5. Teenage is middle childhood.

No. Teenage belongs to adolescence because it is the stage wherein we undergone

6. Mastery of fundamental skills is a major concern during early childhood.

No because fundamental skills must be given more attention during middle

7. Play is a great need of children in early childhood.

8. Preparing children for school readiness is the major concern of middle

No preparedness for school readiness must be provided during early childhood.

TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING

1. Heredity exerts a greater influence on human development than

No. Because environment exerts more of the influence in human development

2. What has been experienced in the earlier stages of development can no

3. From the perspective of life-span developmentalist, later experiences are the

1. Relate what you learned here to your personal development. Reflect on

I learned about the personal development of these topics; the developmental

Complete the sentence.

1. With regard to the nurture-nature, continuity-discontinuity and change-

Continuity-discontinuity because we develop continually, from birth to death,

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