Developmental Stages in Middle and Late Adolescence Flashcards
It focuses on human growth and changes across the lifespan, including physical, cognitive, social, intellectual, perceptual, personality and emotional growth.
Developmental Stages
Age when hereditary endowments are fixed and all body features, both external and internal are developed
Pre-natal (Conception to Birth)
Foundation age when basic behavior is organized and many ontogenetic maturation skills are developed
Infancy (Birth to 2 Years
Pre-gang age, exploratory, and questioning
Early Childhood (2 to 6 Years)
Gang and creativity age when self help skills, social skills, school skills, and play are developed
Late Childhood (6 to 12 Years)
Transition age from childhood to adulthood
Adolescence (Puberty to 18 years)
Age of adjustment to new patterns of life and roles such as spouse, and bread winer
Early Adulthood (18 to 40 Years)
Transition age when adjustment to initial physical and mental decline are experienced
Middle Age (40 Years Retirement)
Retirement age when increasing rapid physical and mental decline are experienced
Old Age (Retirement to Death)
- learning to walk
- learning to take solid foods
- learning to talk
- learning to control the elimination of body wastes
- readiness for reading
Infancy and Early Childhood (05)
- learning to get along with age mates
- learning an appropriate sex role
- learning physical skills necessary for ordinary games
- ## developing fundamental skills in reading, writing and calculating
Middle Childhood (6-12)
- achieving mature relations with both sexes
- accepting ones physique
- preparing for marriage and family life
- achieving a masculine or feminine social role
Adolescence (13-18)
- selecting mate
- learning to live with a partner
- starting a family
- reading children
Early Adulthood (19-40)
- helping teenage children to become happy and responsible adults
- satisfactorily career achievements
- achieving adults social and civic responsibility
Middle Adulthood (30-60)
- adjusting to decreasing strength and health
- adjusting to retirement and reduced income
- adjusting to death of spouse
Later Maturity
