Havighurst's Developmental Stage and Tasks Flashcards
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Developmental Tasks:
- eat solid foods
- walk
- talk
- control elimination of wastes
- relate emotionally to others
- distinguish right from wrong through development of conscience
- learn sex differences and sexual modesty
- achieve personal independence
- form simple concepts of social and physical reality
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Infancy vs. Early Childhood (0-3 years old)
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Development Tasks:
- establish more mature relationships with same age individuals of both sexes
- achieve masculine or feminine social role
- accept own body
- establish emotional independence from parents
- prepare for an occupation
- prepare for marriage and building of family
- acquire skills necessary to fulfill civic responsibilities
- develop a set of values that guides behavior
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Adolescence (13-17 years old)
3
Q
Development Tasks:
- civic and social responsibilities
- maintain an economic standard of living
- relate one’s partner
- adjust to physiological changes
- adjust to aging parents
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Middle Adulthood (36-60 y.o.)
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Q
Developmental Tasks:
- physical skills required for games
- build healthy attitudes towards oneself
- learn to socialize with peers
- learn appropriate masculine or feminine role
- gain basic reading, writing, and mathematical skills
- formulate a conscience based on a value system
- achieve personal independence
- develop attitudes toward social groups and institutions
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Middle Childhood (6-12 years old)
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Developmental Tasks:
- select a partner
- learn to live with a partner
- start a family
- manage a home
- establish self in a career/occupation
- assume civic responsibilities
- become part of a social group
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Early Adulthood (18-35)
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- adjust to physiological changes and alterations in health status
- adjust to retirement and altered income
- adjust to death of spouse
- develop affiliation with one’s age group
- meet civic and social responsibilities
- establish satisfactory living arrangements
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Later Maturity