DEVELOPMENTAL TASK

STAGES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES AND TAKS IN MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE

PROFFESOR ROBERT J. HAVIGHURST

 Development theory; Developmental task

DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS

 Is a tasks to be performed or achieved during a certain period in a person’s life

 It consists of set of skills and competences that are acquired as the person gains increased
mastery over the environment.
 Based on the aspirations and need of the society
 A task which arise at or about a certain period in the life of the individual, successful
achievement of which leads to his/her happiness and to success with later tasks, while
failure leads to unhappiness and difficulty with later task.

DEVELOPEMNTAL STAGES:

PRE-NATAL

 Conception to birth

INFANCY

 Birth – 2 years old

EARLY CHILDHOOD

 2 – 6 years old

LATE CHILDHOOD

 6 – 12 years old
ADOLESCENCE

 13 – 18 years old

EARLY ADULTHOOD

 18 – 40 years old

MIDDLE AGE

 40 – 65 years old

OLD AGE

 Retirement to death

PRE-NATAL DEVELOPMENT

 Is the process in which an embryo or fetus gestates (fetus) during pregnancy. Normal pre-
natal development lasts about 38 weeks and is divided into three stages: germinal,
embryonic, and fetal.

INFANCY

 Foundation age when basic behaviour are organized and many ontogenetic maturation
skills are developed
EARLY CHILDHOOD

 Pre-gang age, exploratory, and questioning. Language and elementary reasoning are
acquired and initial socialization is experienced

LATE CHILDHOOD

 Gang and creativity age when self-help skills, social skills, and play are developed

LATE CHILDHOOD: 6 TO 12 YEARS OLD

 More involved in social world

 Learn skills for later use in adulthood
 More attuned to cultural norms, rules and laws
 Shift focus and attention from parents to peers
 Sense of mastery 0over academic and social domains
  Increased interest/involvement with peers

ADOLESCENCE

 Transitions age from childhood to adulthood when sex maturation and rapid physical
development occur resulting to changes in ways of feeling, thinking and acting

HAVIGHURT’S DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS FRO ADOLESCENTS

1. The adolescents must adjust to new physical sense of self.

 Adolescence strikes like a thief in the night. Suddenly our physical characteristics emerge
and our hormones rocket up resulting to drastic yet profound changes in our physical
aspect. This may drive us to being self-conscious and anxious for ourselves around our
peers and environment.

2. The adolescent must adjust to new intellectual abilities.

 The brain has finally matured in this stage that it can process abstract thoughts or
complex concepts that often results to the curious adolescent mind to speculate more on
the depth of his or her surroundings.

3. The adolescent must adjust to increase cognitive demands at school.

 With fast developing intellectual devices, the adolescent must expect that their
educational system believes them enough that the mental load demanded of them
increases as well. It is a form of exercise. However like developing intellect, it aids more
if one does not only practice the newly found power of cognition but also how to apply it

4. The adolescent must develop expanded verbal skills.

 If you have developed a higher form of intellectual capacity it is expected that your
language and verbal skills must also progress. It is no longer enough to know what words
mean but also on how to use them.
 5. The adolescent must develop a personal sense of identity.
 It stands for being you as a person personally excluding your family and friends beyond
their pressure, wants, and expectations.
 If you do not know what makes you happy, you might end up going on what makes
others happy. In the end, you will end up a pleaser of people.

6. The adolescent must establish adult vocational goals.

 Dream job, course and etc.

7. The adolescent must establish emotional and psychological independence from his or her
parents.
 It is part of growing up where self is develop to be self-reliant from his or her parents,
elders and guardians emotionally and psychologically.

8. The adolescent must develop stable and productive peer relationship

 Healthy relationship among others

9. The adolescent must develop increased impulse control behavioural maturity.

 One should utilize the thinking ability power to be able to look ahead with due
wisdom to control impulses and to prevent oneself from going into destructive habits,
addictions and lifestyles

EARLY ADULTHOOD

 Age of adjustment to new patterns of life and roles such as spouse, parent and bread
winner.

MIDDLE AGE
  Transition age when adjustments to initial physical and mental decline are
experienced

OLD AGE

 Retirement age when increasingly rapid physical and mental decline are experienced