THE DEVELOPMENTAL TASK SUMMARY Flashcards
Infancy and Early Childhood (0-5)
•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
Middle childhood ( 6-12)
• Learning physical skills necessary for ordinary games
•Building a wholesome attitude toward 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 towards society.
Adolescence (13-18)
•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
Early Adulthood (19-30)
•Selecting a mate
•Learning to live with a partner
•Starting a family
•Rearing children
•Managing a home
•Starting an occupation
•Assuming responsibility civic
Middle Adulthood (30-60)
•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
•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
Later Maturity( 61-death)
•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
Can be defined as a state of worry or mental tension caused by a situation
Stress
A feeling of fear , dread , and uneasiness. It might cause you to sweat, feel restless and tense, and have a rapid heartbeat.
Anxiety
Refers to psychological stress or external demands that individuals experience in a situation where they feel the need to perform well or meet certain expectations.
Pressure
A state of deep happiness or discomfort
Misery
A psychological frustration or even suffering that one struggles to find a solution to reduce or eliminate
Strain
A state of hopelessness
Desperation
Is a negative experience that occurs in response to an uncomfortable social situation, anxiety , or after a long night of low- quality sleep.
Tension
An intense emotional state involving a strong comfortable and non cooperative response to a perceived provocation , hurt and threat.
Anger
Is a brief episode of intense anxiety , which causes the physical sensations of fear.
Panic
