MODULE 3:

Developmental Stages in Middle and Late Adolescence

Big Question: How can you as an adolescent be prepared for adult life by accomplishing various
developmental task according to developmental stages?

Objectives:

At the end of this module you will be able to:

1.Classify various developmental task according to developmental stages.

2.Evaluate development in comparison with persons of the same age group,and

3.List way to become a responsible adolescent prepared for adult life.

"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasure for long term values"

Joshua L. Liebman

Activity:MY PERSONAL TIMELINE

A personal timeline portrays the influential events and happenings of a person's life so that he can
understand when he has gone wrong and right in the past. It helps to plan the future in a better
constructive .

Using a bond paper, write the major events in your life and the significant people in your life. You may
add your age, specific date and places. You may draw the timeline horizontally, vertically, diagonally or
even using ups and down depending on your imagination. Be creative on your representation. You may
also use symbols, figures and drawings. Think of a title for your personal timeline.

You may use crayons or art materials defending on the available resources or just a simple paper and
pen may be fine. You can also go for the personal timeline website templates samples available online.

PORTFOLIO OUTPUT NO.5 My personal timeline with reflection

Write about your personal timeline which you made in class. Answer the following questions.

1. Is there a 'center'or a central theme in your timeline and life? If you will give a title for your timeline
what would be and why?

2. Identify the turning points in your timeline. What where the thoughts, feelings and action that you
experienced?

3. Who are/where significant people in your life? How did they influence you?
4. What would you charge or add, if you could? How would each of these changes or additions affect
your life, or even change its present course?

5. What do you want to be in a year, 5 years and 10 years? What do you expect your future timeline will
be?

Reading: DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES

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

The human developmental stages is essential to understanding how humans learn, mature and adapt.
Throughout their lives, humans go through various stages development.

The human being is either in the state of growth or decline, but either condition imparts change. Some
aspect of your life change very little over time, are consistent. Other aspects change dramatically. By
understanding these changes, we can better respond and plan ahead effectively.

Developmental stage Characteristics

1. Pre-natal Age when hereditary endowment and sex are fixed and
all body features, both external and internal are
(Conception to birth) developed.

2. Infancy Foundation age when basic behavior are organized and

many ontogenetic maturation skills are developed.
(Birth to 2 years)

3. Early childhood Pre- gang age, explanatory, and questioning. Language

and Elementary reasoning are acquired and initial
(2 to 6 years) socialization is experienced.

4. Late childhood Gang and creativity age when self-help skills, social
skills, school skills, and play are developed.
(6 to 12 years)

5. Adolescence Transition age from childhood to adulthood when sex

maturation and rapid physical development occur
(Puberty to 18 years) resulting to changes in ways of feeling, thinking and
acting.

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

7. Middle age Transition age when adjustment to initial and physical

and mental decline are experienced.
(40 years to retirement)

8. Old age Retirement age when increasingly rapid and physical

 mental decline are experienced.

(Retirement to death)

Reading: HAVIGHURST’S DEVELOPMENT TASK DURING THE LIFE SPAN

Robert J. Havighurst elaborate on the Developmental Task Theory in the most systematic and extensive
manner. His main assertion is that development is continues throughout the entire lifespan, occuring in
stages where the individuals moves from one stage to the next by means of successful resolution of
problems or performance of Developmental task. 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 societies approval. This success provides a sound foundation which allows the individual to
accomplish task to be encountered at later stages. Conversely, if the 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 task. This theory
presents the individual as an active learner who continually interact with a similarly active and social
environment.

Havighurst proposed bio psychosocial model of development, wherein the developmental task at each
stage are influenced by the individuals biology (psychological maturation and genetic makeup), his
psychology (personal values and goals) and sociology (specific culture to which the individuals belongs).

THE DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS SUMMARY TABLE

Infancy and early childhood Middle childhood 6-12 Adolescence 13-18

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• Learning to walk • Learning physical skills necessary • Achieving mature relations with
for ordinary games both sexes
• Learning to take solid food
• Building a wholesome attitude • Achieving a masculine or feminine
toward one self
• Leaning to talk • Learning to get along with age- social role
mates
• Learning to control the elimination • Accepting one physique
of body wastes • Learning an appropriate sex role
• Achieving emotional
• Learning sex differences and • Developing fundamental skills in independence of adults
sexual modesty reading, writing and calculating
• Preparing for marriage and family
• Acquiring concepts and language • Developing concepts necessary for life
to describe and social physical everyday living
reality • Preparing for an economic career
• Developing conscience morality,
• Readiness for reading and a scales of values • Acquiring values and an ethical
system to guide behavior
• Learning to distinguish right from • Achieving personal independence
wrong and developing a conscience • Desiring and achieving socially
• Developing acceptable attitude responsibility behavior
toward society

Early adulthood (19-30) Middle adulthood (30-60) Later maturity (60-)

• Selecting a mate • Helping teenage children to • Adjusting to decreasing strength

become happy and responsible and health
• Learning to live with a partner adults
• Adjusting to retirement and
• Starting a family • Achieving adult social and civic reduce income
responsibility
• Rearing children • Adjusting to death of spouse
• Satisfactory career achievement
• Managing a home • Establishing relations with one's
• Developing adult leisure time own age group
• Starting an occupation
activities
• Meeting social and civic
• Assuming civic responsibility
• Relating to one's spouse as a obligations
person
• Establishing satisfactory living
• Accepting the physiological
changes of middle age quarters

• Adjusting to aging parent