PERDEV 2 Flashcards
focuses on human growth and changes across the
lifespan, including physical, cognitive, social, intellectual, perceptual, personality and
emotional growth.
human development
development stages in life
- pre-natal
- infancy
- early childhood
- late childhood
- adolescence
- early adulthood
- middle age
- old age
Age when hereditary endowments and sex
are fixed and all body features, both
external and internal are developed.
pre-natal stage (conception to birth)
foundation age when basic behaviors are organized and ontogenic skills are developed
infancy (birth-2years)
pre-gang, exploration, and questioning. language and elementary reasoning are acquired and initial socialization is experienced
early childhood (2-6)
Gang and creativity age when self-help skills, social skills, school skills, and play are developed.
late childhood (6-12)
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 (puberty-18)
Age of adjustment to new patterns of life and roles such as spouse, parent and bread winner.
early adulthood (18-40)
Transition age when adjustments to initial
physical and mental decline are experienced
middle age (40-retirement)
Retirement age when increasingly rapid
physical and mental decline are experienced.
old age (retirement-death)
elaborated on the Developmental Tasks Theory
Robert J. Havighurst
developmental task for infancy to early childhood
- Learning to walk
- Learning to take solid
foods - 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
late childhood developmental tasks
- develop physical abilities for ordinary play
- developing writing, reading, and calculating skills
- getting along with the peers/ same age group
- having a wholesome attitude towards self
- having an acceptable attitude towards the community
- develop consciousness and morality
adolescence developmental tasks
- having mature relationships with both sexes
- accepting ones physique
- assuming feminine or masculine social roles
- preparing for family life
- preparing for economic life
- morality and developed ethical systems of development
- assuming social responsibilities
early adulthood
- choosing your mate
- learning to live with a partner
- starting a family
- rearing the children
- starting a home
- assuming civic and social responsibilities
- starting an occupation
