THE DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS SUMMARY TABLE Flashcards
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
Infancy and Early Childhood (0-5)
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 toward society
Middle Childhood (6-12)
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 responsibility behavior
Adolescence (13-18)
Selecting a mate
Learning to live with a partner
Starting a family
Rearing children
Managing a home
Starting an occupation
Assuming responsibility civic
Early Adulthood (19-30)
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 (30-60)
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 (61-)
