Developmental Stages

• Developmental Stages 

  • are the different periods that individual encounters all throughout his/her life.
• Developmental Task

  • defined as the different tasks which should be learned at a specific point of time and which makes the achievement of succeeding tasks possible.
• Robert James Havighurst

  • a professor, physicist, educator, and aging expert, defined developmental task as that “which is learned at a specific point and which makes the achievement of succeeding tasks possible".
• Havighurst

  • "When the timing is right, the ability to learn a particular task will be possible."
• PRE-NATAL

  • Conception to birth
  • Age when hereditary endowments and sex are fixed and all body features both external and internal are developed.
• INFANCY

  • Birth to 2 years
  • Foundation age when basic behavior are organized and many ontogenetic maturation skills are developed.
• EARLY CHILDHOOD

  • 2 to 6 years old
  • Pre-gang age, exploratory and questioning. Language and Elementary reasoning are acquired and initialization of social skills are experienced.
• LATE CHILDHOOD

  • 6 to 12 years old
  • Gang and creativity age when self-help skills, social skills and play are developed.
• ADOLESCENCE

  • Puberty to 18 years
  • Transition age from childhood to adulthood when sex maturation and rapid physical development occur resulting to changes in ways of feeling, thinking and acting.
• EARLY ADULTHOOD

  • 18 to 40 years old
  • Age of adjustment to new patterns of life and roles such as spouse, parent and bread winner.
• MIDDLE AGE

  • 40 years to retirement
  • Transition age when adjustments to initial physical and mental decline are experienced.
• OLD AGE

  • Retirement to death
  • Retirement age when increasingly rapid physical and mental decline are experienced.
• Human Development

  • focuses on human growth and changes across the lifespan, including physical, cognitive, social, intellectual, perceptual, personality, and emotional growth.