Lesson 3: Personal Development
Developmental Stages
in Middle and Late
Adolescence
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 development is essential to
understanding how humans learn, mature and
adapt. Throughout their lives, humans go through
various stages of development.
The human being is either in a state of growth
or decline, but either condition imparts change.
Activity : CATEGORIZING
Instruction: Using the table below, assess yourself
as a Grade 12 student by writing and categorizing
the things that is easier, difficult and impossible
for you to do at this young age. .
The activity allows you to explore
yourself and think of the things that
changes as you grow. Through this
exercise, you will observe and analyze
how you change gradually from doing
simple things to complex.
DEVELOPMENT
AL STAGES
The many physical, sexual, cognitive, social, and emotional
changes that happen during this time can bring anticipation
and anxiety for both children and their families.
Understanding what to expect at different stages can
promote healthy development. From the moment we are
Instruction: Now that you already have a
basic understanding about developmental
stages, let us summarize our lesson by
answering the following questions below.
1. How do you define development?
2. In what particular stage do you belong
right now? What are the changes that you
feel?
3. What are the 8 stages of development?
How do they differ from each other?
HAVIGHURST`S
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
Robert J. Havighurst elaborated the Developmental
DURING THE LIFE SPAN is
Tasks Theory in the most systematic and extensive
manner. His main assertion is that development
continuous throughout the entire lifespan, occurring
in stages, where the individual moves from one stage
to the next by means of successful resolution of
problems or performance of developmental tasks.
These tasks are those that are typically encountered
by most people in the culture where the individual
belongs. If the person successfully accomplishes and
masters the developmental task, he feels pride and
satisfaction, and consequently earns his community
or society’s approval.
HAVIGHURST`S
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
. This success provides a sound foundation which
DURING THE LIFE SPANif the
allows the individual to accomplish tasks to be
encountered at later stages. Conversely,
individual is not successful at accomplishing a task,
he is unhappy and is not accorded the desired
approval by society, resulting in the subsequent
experience of difficulty when faced with succeeding
developmental tasks.
This theory presents the individual as an active
learner who continually interacts with a similarly
active social environment.
HAVIGHURST`S
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
Havighurst proposed a bio-psychosocial
DURING THE LIFE SPAN
model of development, wherein the
developmental tasks at each stage are
influenced by the individual’s biology
(physiological maturation and genetic
makeup), his psychology (personal values
and goals) and sociology (specific culture
THE DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
SUMMARY TABLE
Infancy and Early Childhood (0-5)
Learning to walk Learning to take solid foods Learning to talk
Learning to control wastes. Learning sex differences and
sexual modesty. Acquiring concepts and language to describe
social and physical reality. Readiness for reading Learning to
distinguish right from wrong and developing a conscience.
THE DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
Middle Childhood (6-12)
SUMMARY TABLE
Learning physical skills necessary for ordinary games. Building a
wholesome attitude toward oneself. Learning to get along with age
mates. Learning an appropriate sex role. Developing fundamental
skills in reading, writing, and physical reality. Readiness for reading.
Learning to distinguish right from wrong and developing a
conscience calculating. Developing concepts necessary for everyday
livin. Developing conscience, morality, and a scale of values.
Achieving personal independence. Developing acceptable attitudes
toward society
THE DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
Adolescence (13-18)
SUMMARY TABLE
Achieving mature relations with both sexes. Achieving
a masculine or feminine social role. Accepting one’s
physique. Achieving emotional independence of
adults. Preparing for marriage and family life.
Preparing for an economic career. Acquiring values and
an ethical system to guide behavior. Desiring and
achieving socially responsibility behavior.
THE DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
Early Adulthood (19-30)
SUMMARY TABLE
Selecting a mate, Learning to live with a partner
Starting a family Rearing children, Managing a home,
Starting an occupation, Assuming civic responsibility.
THE DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
Middle Adulthood (30- 60)
SUMMARY TABLE
Helping teenage children to become happy and
responsible adults. Achieving adult social and civic
responsibility. Satisfactory career achievement.
Developing adult leisure time activities. Relating to
one’s spouse as a person. Accepting the physiological
changes of middle age .Adjusting to aging parent.
THE DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
Later Maturity(61+)
SUMMARY TABLE
Adjusting to decreasing strength and health Adjusting
to retirement and reduced income. Adjusting to death
of spouse. Establishing relations with one’s own age
group. Meeting social and civic obligations.
Establishing satisfactory living quarters.
Questions:
1. Being in Grade 12, what are the developmental tasks
expected of you? Rate yourself from 1-10 (10 as the
highest) whether you have accomplished those expected
tasks?
2. As you are in Grade 12, you are in transition from high
school to college, from being an adolescent to young
adult. How do you feel about this transition? What is your
turning point?
3. Do you think you are ready in this transition which may
mean more responsibilities and greater accountability? If
What are the What are the What are the
What I have expected expected tasks expected
tasks you have you have tasks you hav
Activity: successfully partially not
learned?
DEVELOPMENTAL accomplished? accomplished? accomplished
TASKS OF BEING IN
GRADE 12
Instruction: Using the
Developmental Tasks
Summary Table
above, assess your
own level of
development as a
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