GERIATRICS

LECTURE / NCM 114

DEVELOPMENTAL TASK B. PERSONAL VALUES AND ASPIRATIONS

INTRODUCTION
ROBERT JAMES HAVIGHURST
• He was a professor, physicist, educator,
and aging expert.
• He proposed that all individuals progress
through a series of developmental stages,
each comprising a series of developmental
tasks.
• He believed that educators should consider
all developmental tasks of children and
adolescents.
• He died of Alzheimer's disease at the age of
90.
• These personal factors result from the
interaction between ontogenetic and
environmental factors, and play an
active role in the emergence of specific
developmental tasks
C. SOCIO-CULTURAL AND CULTURAL
• Such influences are based on, for
instance, laws, and culturally shared
expectations of development.
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS

DEFINITION
• A developmental task is one that arises
predictably and consistently at or about a
certain period in the life of the individual
(Havighurst, 1948 and 1953)

CHARACTERISTICS
• A lifelong process that is influenced by
biological, psychological, and social
factors.
• There are developmental tasks that people
face at different stages of life.
• There are sensitive periods, or "teachable
moments," when people are most likely to
learn new skills.

SOURCES
• Developmental tasks arise from three
different sources.
• In his bio psychosocial model, the first
important issue is biology, second is
psychology and the last one is the
sociology
A. PHYSICAL MATURATION
• Learning to walk, talk, and behave
acceptably with the opposite sex
during adolescence; adjusting to
menopause during middle age

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