DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES

 Human Development focuses on human growth and changes across the lifespan including:
1. Physical
2. Cognitive
3. Social
4. Intellectual
5. Perceptual
6. Personality
7. Emotional Growth
 Is essential to understanding how humans learn, mature, and adapt.
 Stages:
1. Pre-natal ( conception-birth)
2. Infancy (birth – 2 yrs.)
3. Early Childhood (2-6 yrs.)
4. Late Childhood (6-12 yrs.)
5. Adolescence (puberty-18 yrs.)
6. Early Adulthood (18-40 yrs.)
7. Middle Age (40- retirement)
8. Old Age ( retirement- death)

HAVIGHURST’S DEVELOPMENTAL TASK

 ROBERT J. HAVIGHURST – was a chemist and physicist, educator, and expert on human
development and aging.
 Born on June 1900 in De Pere, Wisconsin
 He wrote several books and published many papers
 His best known book called “Human Development and Education”
 From 1948 to 1953 he developed his highly influential theory of humans development and
education
 He identified 6 Major stages in human life covering birth to old age.
1. Infancy and Early Childhood (birth – 6 yrs. Old)
2. Middle Childhood (6– 13 yrs. Old))
3. Adolescence (13-18 yrs. Old)
4. Early Adulthood (19-30 yrs. old)
5. Middle Adulthood (30-60 yrs. Old)
6. Later Maturity (61-above)

1. Learning to walk,
2. Learning to talk,
3. Learning to take solid foods
4. Readiness for reading

1. Building a wholesome attitude toward oneself

2. Learning to get along with age-mates
3. Developing concepts necessary for everyday living
4. Achieving personal independence

1. Accepting one’s physique

2. Achieving emotional independence of adults
3. Preparing for marriage and family life
4. Preparing for an economic career

1. Selecting a mate
2. Starting a family
3. Rearing children
4. Starting an occupation

1. Achieving adult social and civic responsibility

2. Satisfactory career achievement
3. Developing adult leisure time activities
4. Accepting the physiological changes of middle age

1. Adjusting to decreasing strength and health

2. Adjusting to retirement and reduce income
3. Adjusting to death of spouse
4. Establishing relations with one’s own age group