This document discusses human developmental stages from conception through late adulthood. It describes 8 major developmental stages, including pre-natal, infancy, early childhood, late childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age, and old age. For each stage, key characteristics and developmental tasks are outlined. Developmental tasks refer to skills and responsibilities acquired at each life phase. Tables summarize developmental tasks for infancy/early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and later maturity. The document emphasizes that development is a continuous lifelong process of growth and change.

1. MODULE 3:
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
IN MIDDLE AND LATE
ADOLESCENCE

2. ACTIVITY: MY PERSONAL TIMELINE
•Using a bond paper, write the
major events in your life and
the significant people in your
life. You may add your age,
specific dates and places.
•Be creative in your
representations. You may use
symbols, drawings, and figures

3. DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
•Human development
focuses on human growth
and changes across the
lifespan including physical,
cognitive, social,
intellectual, personality and
emotional growth

4. •The study of human
developmental stages is
essential to understanding
how humans learn, mature
and adapt.
•The human being is either in a
state of growth or decline, but
either condition imparts
CHANGE

5. • DEVELOPMENT varies from every individual..
what I am going to discuss is the ideal

6. DEVELOPMENTAL
STAGE
CHARACTERISTICS
1. PRE-NATAL
(Conception to birth)
Age when hereditary
endowments and sex are
fixed and all body features,
both external and internal
are developed
2. INFANCY
(Birth to 2 years)
foundation age when
basic behavior are
organized and many
ontogenic maturation
skills are developed

7. DEVELOPMENTAL
STAGE
CHARACTERISTICS
3. Early Childhood
(2-6 years)
pre-gang age,
exploratory and
questioning. Initial
socialization is
experienced
4. LATE
CHILDHOOD
(6-12 years)
gang and creativity
age when self-help
skills, social skills,
school skills and play
are developed

8. DEVELOPMENTAL
STAGE
CHARACTERISTICS
5. ADOLESCENCE
(puberty to 18 years)
Transition age from
childhood to adulthood
when sex maturation and
rapid physical development
resulting to changes in ways
of feeling, thinking and
acting
6. EARLY
ADULTHOOD
(18 to 40 years
age of adjustment to
new patterns of life
and roles such as
spouse, parent and

9. DEVELOPMENTAL
STAGE
CHARACTERISTICS
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

10. HAVIGHURST’S
DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
DEVELOPMENT
- is the process of
growth or change that
people go through

11. •DEVELOPMENT
- is continuous
throughout the
entire lifespan

12. SOURCES FOR
DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
•PHYSICAL GROWTH
- a baby is born as a
helpless human, a its body
matures, the child can
learn many new skills like
walking and talking

13. SOURCES FOR
DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
•SOCIAL PRESSURES
- through rewards and
penalties, society pressures
the child to master the tasks
seen as important. These
tasks differ from culture to
culture.

14. SOURCES FOR
DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
•INNER PRESSURES
- the actual desires to
achieve comes from within
the child. It is the child that is
responsible for mastering
each task

15. DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
SUMMARY TABLE
INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD (0-5)
•Learning to walk
•Learning to take solid foods
•Learning to talk
•Learning to control the elimination of body
wastes
•Learning sexual differences
•Readiness for reading
•Learning to distinguish right from wrong

16. DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
SUMMARY TABLE
MIDDLE CHILDHOOD (6-12)
•Learning physical skills for ordinary games
•Learning to get along with age-mates
•Learning an appropriate sex roles
•Developing conscience, morality, and values
•Achieving personal independence
•Developing acceptable attitudes toward
society

17. DEVELOPMENTAL TASK SUMMARY
TABLE
ADOLESCENCE (13-18)
• achieving mature relations with both sexes
•Achieving a masculine or feminine social role
•Accepting one’s physique (structure, size and
shape of a person’s body)
•Achieving emotional independence
•Preparing for marriage and family life
•Acquiring values to guide behavior
•Preparing for an economic career
•Desiring and achieving social responsibility
behavior

18. DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
SUMMARY TABLE
EARLY ADULTHOOD (19-30)
•Selecting a mate
•Learning to live with a partner
•Starting a family
•Rearing children
•Managing a home
•Starting an occupation

19. DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
SUMMARY TABLE
MIDDLE ADULTHOOD (30-60)
•Helping teenage children to become happy
and responsible adults
•Developing adult leisure time activities
•Relating to one’s spouse as a person
•Adjusting to aging parent
•Accepting physiological changes of middle
age

20. DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
SUMMARY TABLE
LATER MATURITY (61-)
•Adjusting to decreasing health and strength
•Adjusting to retirement and reduced income
•Adjusting to death of spouse
•Establishing relations with one’s own age
group
•Meeting social and civic obligations