DEVELOPMENTAL

STAGES
Human Development - focuses on human growth
and changes across the lifespan, including
physical, cognitive, social, intellectual, perceptual,
personality and emotional growth.
The study of human developmental stages is
essential to understanding how humans learn,
mature and adapt. Throughout their lives, humans
go through various stages of development.
Developmenta Characteristics
l Stage
1. Pre-natal Age when hereditary endowments and sex are fixed and all
(Conception to body features, both external and internal are developed.
birth)

2. Infancy (Birth Foundation age when basic behavior are organized and many
to 2 years) ontogenetic maturation skills are developed.

3. Early Pre-gang age, exploratory, and questioning. Language and

Childhood (2 to Elementary reasoning are acquired and initial socialization is
6 years) experienced
4. Late Gang and creativity age when self-help skills, social skills,
Childhood school skills, and play are developed.
(6-12 years)
5. Adolescence Transition age from childhood to adulthood when
(Puberty to 18 years) sex maturation and rapid physical development
occur resulting to changes in ways of feeling,
thinking and acting.

6. Early Adulthood (18 to 40 years)

(18 to 40 years) Age of adjustment to new patterns of life and
roles such as spouse, parent and bread winner.

7. Middle Age
(40 years to retirement) Transition age when adjustments to initial physical
and mental decline are experienced.

8. Old Age
(Retirement to death) Retirement age when increasingly rapid physical
and mental decline are experienced