LESSON 2 | STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT AND DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS | REVIEWER

Question 1

• From conception to birth
• A tremendous growth from a single cell to an organism with brain and behavioral capabilities.

Answer 1

PRENATAL PERIOD

Question 2

• From birth to 18-24 months
• Extreme dependents on adults
• Beginning of psychological activities (language, symbolic thought, sensorimotor coordination, social learning)

Answer 2

INFANCY

Question 3

• End of infancy to 5-6 years old (Grade 1)
• Preschool years
• Young children become self-sufficient and to care for themselves
• Develop school readiness skills and spend many hours in play with peers.

Answer 3

EARLY CHILDHOOD

Question 4

• 6 to 11 years old (Elementary)
• Fundamental skills of reading, writing and arithmetic
• The child is formally exposed to the larger world and its culture

Answer 4

MIDDLE AND LATE CHILDHOOD

Question 5

• 10 to 12 years old ending up to 18 to 22 years of age
• Rapid physical changes
• Development of sexual characteristics, changes in body contour, dramatic gains in height and weight

Answer 5

ADOLESCENCE

Question 6

• Late teens or early 20s lasting through 30s
• Establishing personal and economic independence, career development, selecting a mate, learning to live with someone in an intimate way.

Answer 6

EARLY ADULTHOOD

Question 7

• 40 to 60 years of age
• Time of expanding personal and social involvement and responsibility
• Assisting the next generation to be competent and useful members of society
• Reaching and maintaining satisfaction in career

Answer 7

MIDDLE ADULTHOOD

Question 8

• 60s and Above
• Time for adjustment to decreasing strength and health
• Life review, retirement, adjustment to new roles

Answer 8

LATE ADULTHOOD

Question 9

• Learning to walk
• Learning to take solid foods
• Learning to talk
• Learning to control the elimination of body 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

Answer 9

INFANCY CHILDHOOD (0-5)

Question 10

• 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 calculating
• Developing concepts necessary for everyday living
• Developing conscience, morality, and a scale of values
• Achieving personal independence
• Developing acceptable attitudes toward society

Answer 10

MIDDLE CHILDHOOD (6-12)

Question 11

• 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 responsible behavior

Answer 11

ADOLESCENCE (13-18)

Question 12

• Selecting a mate
• Learning to live with a partner
• Starting a family rearing children
• Managing a home
• Starting an occupation
• Assuming civic responsibility

Answer 12

EARLY ADULTHOOD (19-29)

Question 13

• 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

Answer 13

MIDDLE ADULTHOOD (30-60)

Question 14

• 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

Answer 14

LATER MATERNITY