Performance Task 2

Observation on Human Development Stage and Developmental Tasks

Direction: Observe different persons at different stages of their lives. Use the observation sheet below
to record what have you observed considering the 5 (five) main areas of development.

Stages of Main Areas of Development

Developmen
t Physical Emotional Intellectual Social Spiritual

Infancy -They are not -Infant -Newborn -An infants -

fully socialization doesn’t begin
Age:0-3 developed based around understand expressing
months
physically activities of symbols, so fear and
-Slowly gaining feeding, he/she can’t anger.
weight sleeping, and use language
body to make
positioning. senses of the
world.

Early -Learning to -Can learn to -Recognize the -Aware of -They are

Childhood walk, run, and share with one name for showing taught but
talk or two others. many objects more they are still
Age:1-5 years -Increase in and people emotions not aware of
old
height and -The mind is -The
weight slowly development
developing is not taken
seriously

Middle -Learning -Learning to get -Developing -Able to - They are

childhood: physical skill along with fundamental analyze aware of the
necessary for agemates skill in reading failures & values and is
Age:6-10 ordinary writing and makes plans already
years old
games calculating to act change practicing it
-They know
what is right
and wrong but
is still not
 ready to
undergo
consequences
Values and
religion are
given but is
still not taken
seriously

Late -Can -Like to assert -Be able to -Feeling -They became

childhood: demonstrate themselves, think logically anxious and curious and
improved, wants to be first with different stress with start to ask a
Age:11-15 agility, speed, and the best situation. every little question about
years old
coordinates thing it
and balance -They include
it as their daily
routine and
habit

Adolescence -Changes in -Looking for -Begins to -Shows - The same

the body, new independently strong goes with
voices, height, experiences differentiate feelings and middle
Age:16-25 weight and -starting to right from intense childhood they
years old
hormones develop and wrong and emotions at are including
explore a sexual develops a different practices or
identity conscience times activities to
-Learns to use gain progress
deductive and
reasoning and development
make to their
educated spiritual being
guesses -They are
already aware
of what are
the objectives
and purpose of
these in their
daily lives
Early -The skin -Communicating -Begins with -more self- - They begin to
adulthood develops in different the ability to conscious understand
wrinkles ways apply concepts especially and wonder
Age:26-40 -metabolism -Thinking more to specific about about the
years old
slowly about right or example physical different
becomes weak wrong -Becomes able appearance aspects that
to construct and changes would affect
hypothetical -Goes them
solutions to a through a spiritually
problem and bulletproof They have the
evaluate which stage of sense to look
is best thinking and for ways that
acting. can help the
improve
-The
development
is there is
continued to
be nurture
relying on the
help of the
peers they are
in that effect
and matter for
them in their
age
-The
development
relies on the
peers the
individual is
closest with

-They consider
what they see
and use it as it
references
Not much of a
 self-decision
but base on
others or the
environment

Middle -The lens of -This stage -They can plan -Lack of - The
adulthood the eye starts creates a certain for there involvement Individual
to stiffen and amount of future leads to a starts to have
thicken, confusion -Becomes feeling of their own
Age:40-65
resulting in regarding one’s more focused, stagnation. belief and
years old
changes in expected roles and elderly -Good ways in
vision. as they grow people tend to emotional dealing with
-Hair starts to older make the most self- their spiritual
thin and of their regulation life
became gray cognitive and flexible -Sense of
abilities coping having their
through goal- strategies won
centered use. philosophy of
life-based on
life
experiences
-Needs
spiritual
validation

Late -Aging -They want to -Become more -Easily stress - Increase the
adulthood -There is see their wise and angered level of
decreased grandchildren’s -Loss of -sensitive thinking about
Age:65 above sensitivity in -Prefer spending memory life
all of the time alone or -mental -Acceptance of
sensory with their disorders oneself
modalities, family/spouse -Having the
including sense of
olfaction, integrin to
taste, touch, serve other
hearing and people, a long-
vision term
attachment to
care among
family and
friends
-Meditation to
relieve life
stress
-Jumping on
less problem
decisions to
avoid spiritual
discomfort
-Trying to
learn from
focal points
and to be
mindful at all
times