DEVELOPMENTAL

STAGES IN MIDDLE
AND LATE
ADOLESCENCE
 MATURITY IS
ACHIEVED WHEN A
PERSON POSTPONES
IMMEDIATE
PLEASURES FOR
LONG- TERM VALUES
- JOSHUA LEIBMAN
MY PERSONAL
TIMELINE
A personal timeline portrays the influential events
and happenings of a person’s life so that he can
understand where he has gone wrong and right in
the past. It helps to plan the future in a better
constructive way.
In your journal, write the major events in your life and the
significant people in your life. You may add your age, specific
dates and places. You may draw the timeline horizontally,
vertically, diagonally or even using ups and downs depending
on your imagination. Be creative in your presentations. You
may also use symbols, figures and drawings. Think a title for
your personal timeline
DIRECTION. MATCH COLUMN A WITH COLUMN B

COLUMN A COLUMN B

1. 40 years to retirement A. Prenatal

2. Conception to birth B. Infancy
3. Retirement to death C. Adolescence
4. puberty to 18 years D. Early Adulthood
5. 18 to 40 years E. Middle Age
F. Old Age
DEVELOOMENTAL
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.
PRE- NATAL (conception to birth)
-age when hereditary
endowments and sex are
fix and all body features,
both external and internal
are develop
INFANCY (Birth to 2 years)
- Foundation age when basic behavior are organized
and may ontogenetic maturation skills are developed.
EARLY CHILDHOOD (2 to 6 years)
Pre- gang age,
exploratory, and
questioning. Language
and elementary
reasoning are acquired
in initial socialization
is experienced
LATE CHILDHOOD (6 to 12 years)

Gang and creativity

age when self-help
skills, social skills,
school skills, and play
are developed
ADOLESCENCE (puberty to 18 years)
Transition age from
childhood to adulthood
when sex maturation and
rapid physical development
occur resulting to changes in
ways of feeling, thinking
and acting.
EARLY ADULTHOOD (18 to 40 years)

Age of adjustment to new

patterns of life and roles
such as spouse, parent
and bread winner.
MIDDLE AGE (40 years to retirement)

Transition age when

adjustments to initial
physical and mental
decline are experienced.
OLD AGE (retirement to death)

Retirement age when

increasingly rapid
physical and mental
decline are experienced.
 HAVIGHURST’S
DEVELOPMENTAL
TASK THEORY 
INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD (0-5)

1. Learning to walk. 
2. Learning to take solid foods 
3. Learning to talk 
4. Learning to control the elimination of body wastes.
5. Learning sex differences and sexual modesty 
6. acquiring concepts and learning language to describe
social and physical reality. 
7. Readiness for reading
8. Learning to distinguish right from wrong and start
developing a conscience
MIDDLE CHILDHOOD (6-12)

1. Learning physical skills necessary for

ordinary games. 
2. Building wholesome attitudes toward
oneself
3. Learning to get along with age-mates 
4. Learning an appropriate sex roles
5. Developing fundamental skills in
reading, writing, and calculating 
6. Developing concepts necessary for
everyday living. 
7. Developing conscience, morality, and a
scale of values 
8. Achieving personal independence 
9. Developing acceptable attitudes toward
society
ADOLESCENCE (13-18)
1. Achieving mature relations
with both sexes
2. Achieving a masculine or
feminine social role
3. Accepting one’s physique
4. Achieving emotional
independence of adults
5. Preparing for marriage and
family life
6. Preparing for an economic
career
7. Acquiring values and an
ethical system to guide behavior
8. Desiring and achieving
socially responsibility behavior
EARLY ADULTHOOD (19-30)

1. Selecting a mate
2. Learning to live with a partner
3. Starting a family
4. Rearing children
5. Managing a home
6. Starting an occupation
7. Assuming civic responsibility
 MIDDLE ADULTHOOD (30-60)
1. Helping teenage children to become happy and
responsible adults
2. Achieving adult social and civic responsibility
3. Satisfactory career achievement
4. Developing adult leisure time activities
5. Relating to one’s spouse as a person
6. Accepting the physiological changes of middle
age
7. Adjusting to aging parent
LATER MATURITY 1. Adjusting to decreasing strength
and health
(61-)
2. Adjusting to retirement and reduced
income
3. Adjusting to death of spouse
4. Establishing relations with one’s
own age group
5. Meeting social and civic obligations
6. Establishing satisfactory living
quarters
PROCESSING QUESTIONS.
1. As you in Grade 11, you are in transition from high school to
college, from being adolescent to young adulthood. How do you
feel about this transition?

2. Do you think you are ready for this transition which may mean
more responsibilities and greater accountability? If no, what are
the expected tasks you need to work on? If yes, what are the
ways to take so you can better plan for the future?
Instructions: Identify what Developmental Stage is asked or described in each item.
Choose the letter of the correct answer in the box and write it on your journal.

A. Infancy and Early Childhood B. Middle Childhood

C. Adolescence
D. Early Adulthood E. Middle Adulthood F. Later Maturity

1. Joemar and Jean are starting a family.

2. Irish is attending the needs of her old parents.
3. My sister starts to eat solid food.
4. The old man is so sad, after he lost his wife.
5. High School Graduates wish to take STEM because they want to be a Nurse in the
future.