At the end of this Report, we should
be able to know the following:
Define developmental task in our own
words.
Describe the developmental task in
each developmental stage.
For every developmental stage,
there is an expected developmental
task. What happens when the
expected developmental tasks are
not achieved at the corresponding
developmental stage? How can you
help children achieve these
developmental tasks?
1. Pre-natal Period
2. Infancy (0-2 years)
3. Early Childhood (3-5 years)
4. Middle and Late Childhood (6-12
years)
5. Adolescence (13-18 years)
6. Early Adulthood (19-29 years)
7. Middle Adulthood (30-60 years)
8. Late Adulthood (61 years and above)
Asked the following questions succintly:
1. How from so simple a beginning do
endless forms develop and grow and
mature?
2. What was this organism?
3. What is it now, and what will it
become?
Birth’s fragile moment arrives, when the
new born is on a threshold between two
worlds.
Refers to the process in which a
baby develops from a single cell
after conception into an embryo
and later a fetus.
The average length of time for
prenatal development to
complete is 38 weeks from the
date of conception. During this
time, a single-celled zygote
develops in a series of stages
into a full-term baby.
1. The Germinal Stage
2. The Embryonic Stage
3. The Fetal Stage
First 2 weeks
Conception
Implantation
Formation of placenta
2 weeks to 2 months
Formation of vital organs and
systems
2 months – birth
Bodily growth continues
Movement capability begins
Brain cells multiply age of viability
As newborns, we were not empty-
headed organisms. We cried, kicked,
coughed, sucked, saw heard and
tasted. We slept a lot and occasionally
we smiled, although the meaning of
our smiles was not entirely clear. We
crawled and then we walked. A
journey of a thousand miles beginning
with a single steps. (Santrock 2002)
In early childhood, our greatest untold
poem was being only four years old.
We skipped, played and ran all day
long, never in our lives so busy; busy
becoming something we had not quite
grasped yet. Who knew our thoughts?
Which worked up into small
mythologies all our own. (Santrock
2002)
Middle childhood is a stage where
children move into expanding roles
and environments. Children begin to
spend more time away from their
family and spend more time in school
and other activities. As they
experience more of the world around
them, children begin to develop their
own identity.
Adolescence is a transitional stage of
physical and psychological
development that generally occurs
during the period from puberty to
legal adulthood. Adolescence is
usually associated with the teenage
years, but its physical, psychological
or cultural expressions may begin
earlier and end later.
Earlyadulthood is time for work
and a time for love, sometimes
leaving little time for anything
else. For some of us, finding our
place in adult society and
committing you a more stable life
take no longer than we imagine.
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
In middle adulthood what we have been
forms what we will be. For some of us,
middle age is such a foggy place, a time
when we need to discover what we are
running from and to why? We compare
our life with what we vowed to make it. In
middle age, more time stretches before us
and some evaluations have to be made.
1. Helping teenage children to become happy
and responsible.
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.
1. Adjusting to decreasing strength and
health.
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.
