Module 3 Flashcards
portrays the influential events and
happenings of a person’s life so that he can understand where
he has gone wrong and right in the past. It helps to plan the
future in a better constructive way.
Personal Timeline
focuses on human growth and
changes across the lifespan, including physical, cognitive, social,
intellectual, perceptual, personality and emotional growth.
Human Development
essential to understanding how humans learn, mature and adapt.
Throughout their lives, humans go through various stages of
development.
The STUDY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
The human being is either in a state of?
Growth or Decline
8 Developmental stages
- Pre-natal
- Infancy
- Early Childhood
- Late Childhood
- Adolescence
- Early Adulthood
- Middle Age
- Old Age
- Concepcion to birth
- Age when hereditary
endowments and sex are
fixed and all body features, both external and internal are developed.
Pre-natal
- (Birth to 2 years)
- Foundation age when basic
behaviors are organized and
many ontogenetic maturation
skills are developed.
Infancy
- 2 to 6 years
- Pre-gang age, exploratory,
and questioning.
Early Childhood
- 6 to 12 years
- Gang and creativity age
when self-help skills, social
skills, school skills, and play
are developed.
Late Childhood
- 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.
Adolescence
- 18 to 40 years
- Age of adjustment to new
patterns of life and roles
such as spouse, parent and
bread winner.
Early Adulthood
- 40 years to retirement
- Transition age when
adjustments to initial
physical and mental
decline are experienced.
Middle age
- Retirement to Death
- Retirement age when
increasingly rapid physical
and mental decline are
experienced.
Old Age
development is continuous throughout
the entire lifespan, occurring in stages, where the individual
moves from one stage to the next by means of successful
resolution of problems or performance of developmental
tasks.
Developmental Tasks Theory by Robert J. Havighurst
individual who continually interacts with a similarly active social
environment.
Active Learner
wherein the developmental tasks at each
stage are influenced by the individual’s biology (physiological
maturation and genetic makeup), his psychology (personal
values and goals) and sociology (specific culture to which the
individual belongs).
bio Psychosocial Model of Development
• Learning to walk
• Learning to take solid food
• Learning to talk
• Learning to control the
elimination of body
wastes
• Learning sex differences
and sexual modesty
• Acquiring concepts and
language to describe
social and physical
reality
• Readiness for reading
• Learning to distinguish
right from wrong and
developing a conscience
Infancy and Early Childhood
• Learning physical skills
necessary for ordinary
games
• Building a wholesome
attitude towards oneself
• Learning to get along with
age-mates
• Learning an appropriate
sex role
• Developing fundamental
skills in reading, writing,
and calculating
• Developing concepts
necessary for everyday
living
• Developing conscience,
morality, and a scale of
values
• Achieving personal
independence
• Developing acceptable
attitudes toward society
Middle Childhood
• Achieving mature
relations with both sexes
• Achieving a masculine or
feminine social role
• Accepting one’s physique
• Achieving emotional
independence of adults
• Preparing for marriage and
family life
• Preparing for an
economic career
• Acquiring values and an
ethical system to guide
behavior
• Desiring and achieving
socially responsible
behavior
Adolescence
• Selecting a mate
• Learning to live with a
partner
• Starting a family
• Rearing children
• Managing a home
• Starting an occupation
• Assuming civic
responsibility
Early Adulthood
• Helping teenage children
to become happy and
responsible adults
• Achieving adult social and
civic responsibility
• Satisfactory career
achievement
• Developing adult leisure
time activities
• Relating to one’s spouse
as a person
• Accepting the physiological
changes of middle age
• Adjusting to aging parent
Middle Adulthood
• Adjusting to decreasing
strength and health
• Adjusting to retirement
and reduced income
• Adjusting to death of
spouse
• Establishing relations with
one’s own age group
• Meeting social and civic
obligations
• Establishing satisfactory
living quarters
Later Maturity
