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THE STAGES OF

DEVELOPMENT AND
DEVELOPMENTAL
TASKS
Professor:
Assoc. Prof. Mitzy M. Macaraeg
Table of Contents
Middle & Late Childhood
1. Objectives 6. and Developmental Tasks

Adolescence
2. Introduction 7. and Developmental Tasks

Pre-natal Period Early Adulthood


3. 8. and Developmental Tasks
and Developmental Tasks

Infancy Middle Adulthood


4. 9. and Developmental Tasks
and Developmental Tasks

Early Childhood Late Adulthood


5. 10. and Developmental Tasks
and Developmental Tasks
Objectives

Challenge yourselves to:


define developmental tasks in your own words
describe the developmental tasks in each
developmetal stage
come up with research abstract / summaries of
research on developmental tasks
Introduction

For every developmental


stage, there is always an
expected developmental task.
Developmental
Task according
to Havighurst:
"one that arises at a certain period in
our life, the successful achievement
of which leads to happiness and
success with later tasks while failure
leads to unhappiness, social
disapproval, and difficulty with later
tasks."
Developmental Stages

John Santrock
Robert Havighurst He cited Havighurst's six (6)
There are six (6) developmental stages into
developmental stages. He eight (8) developmental
combined infancy and early stages. Santrock separated
childhood and didn't infancy and early childhood
mentioned pre-natal period. into two different stages.
Developmental Stages
1.

Pre-natal Period
(from conception to birth)

It involves tremendous
growth - from a single cell
to an organism complete
with brain and behavioral
capabilities. ​
Illustration by Katie Kerpel. © Verywell, 2017.
Developmental Stages
2.
Infancy
(from birth to 2 years)

A time of extreme dependence


on adults. Many psychological
activities are just beginning –
language, symbolic thought,
sensorimotor coordination
and social learning.​
Developmental Stages
3.
Early Childhood
(from end of infancy to 5-6 years)

These are the preschool years.


Young children learn to
become more self-sufficient
and to care for themselves,
develop school readiness skill
and spend many hours in play
with peers.​
Developmental
Tasks

5. Learning sex
1. Learning to walk. ​ differences and and
2. Learning to take sexual modest. ​
solid food. ​ 6. Acquiring concepts and
language to describe
3. Learning to talk. ​ social and physical reality. ​
4. Learning to control 7. Readiness of reading.
the body of 8. Learning to distinguish
elemination. ​ right from wrong and
developing a conscience.​
Developmental Stages
4. Middle and
Late Childhood
(6-11 years of age, the
elementary school age)

The fundamental skills of reading,


writing and arithmetic are
mastered. The child is formally
exposed to the larger world and its
culture. Achievement becomes a
more central theme of the child's
world and self-control increases.​
Developmental
Tasks

1. Learning physical skills 6. Developing concepts


necessary for ordinary necessary for everyday living.
games.​ 7. Developing conscience,
2. Building a whole-some morality, and a scale of values. ​
attitude toward oneself.​ 8. Achieving personal
3. Learning to get along with independence.
agemate. ​ 9. Developing acceptable
4. Learning an appropriate sex attitudes toward society.​
role.​
5. Developing fundamental
skills in reading, writing ,
and calculating.
Developmental Stages
5. Adolescence
(10-12 years of age ending
up to 18-22 years of age)
Begins with rapid physical changes
- dramatic gains in height and
weight, changes in body contour
and the development of sexual
characteristics. Pursuit of
independence and identity are
prominent. Thought is more logical,
abstract and idealistic. More time
is spent outside the family.
Developmental
Tasks

1. Achieving mature 5. Preparing for an


relations with both economic career.​
sexes.​ 6. Acquiring values and an
2. Achieving a masculine or ethical system to guide
feminine role.​ behavior.​
3. Accepting one's 7. Desiring and achieving
physique.​ socially responsible
4. Achieving emotional behavior.​
independence of adults.​
Developmental Stages
6.
Early Adulthood
(from late teens or early 20s
lasting through the 30s)
It is a time of establishing personal
and economic independence,
career development, selecting a
mate, learning to live with someone
in an intimate way, starting a family
and rearing children.​
Developmental
Tasks

1. Selecting a mate.​
2. Learning to live with a
partner.​
3. Preparing for marriage
and family life.​
4. Rearing children. ​
5. Managing a home.​
6. Starting an occupation.​
7. Assuming civic
responsibility.​
Developmental Stages
7. Middle
Adulthood
(from 40 to 60 years of age)
The period of lifespan between young
adulthood and old age. ​It's a time of
a.) expanding personal and social
involvement and responsibility;
b.) of assisting the next generation
in becoming competent and becoming
more mature individuals; and
c.) of reaching and maintaining
satisfaction in a career.
Developmental
Tasks

4. Developing adult leisure


1. Helping teenage
time activities.​
children to become
5. Relating to one’s
happy and responsible
spouse as a person.​
adult​.
6. Accepting the
2. Achieving adult social
physiological changes of
and civic responsibility.​
middle age.​
3. Satisfactory career
7. Adjusting to aging
achievement.​
parents.​
Developmental Stages
8. Late Adulthood
or Later Maturity
(60s and above)
It is a time for adjustment to
decreasing strength and health, life
review, retirement and adjustment to
new social roles.
Spans the time when we reach our
mid-sixties until death.​
The longest developmental stage
across the lifespan.​
Developmental
Tasks

1. Adjusting to decreasing
strength and health​
2. Adjusting to retirement
and reduced income​
3. Adjusting to death of
spouse​
4. Establishing relations
with one's own age group.​
5. Meeting social and civic
obligations.​
6. Establishing satisfactory
living quarters.​
Reference

Corpuz, B. et. al. (2018). The Child and Adolescent Learners and Learning Principles. Lorimar Publishing Inc.
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