Module 3: DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES IN MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE

Human Development focuses on human growth and changes across the lifespan.
• Physical
• Cognitive
• Social
• Intellectual
• Perceptual
• Personality
• Emotional

Erik Erikson: American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst that is famous for
coining the term identity crisis.

8 Developmental Stages
1. Pre-natal: conception to birth
o Age when hereditary endowments and sex are fixed and all body features---
external and internal are developed.
o *Embryonic Stage, Germinal Stage and Fetal Stage
2. Infancy: 1-2 years old
o Earliest part of a person’s life.
 1 year old: Begins to walk and talk
o Has a better understanding of what’s being said
 2 years old: Begins to communicate verbally
o Can usually speak in 3 to 4 word sentences
o Will play with other children but does not actively play with them
o Great imitators
3. Early Childhood: 2-6 years old
o It is a period of rapid physical, mental, emotional, social and language
development of a child.
o ideal age to learn skills
Used by Psychology
QUESTIONING AGE
Common way of exploring in early childhood by asking.
PREGANG AGE
The time when children are learning the foundation of social behavior.
EXPLORATORY AGE
A label which implies that children want to know what their environment is, how it
works, how it be part of it.
IMITATING AGE
Imitative of speech and action of others are prevalent. Imitative nature develops
creative talents.
CREATIVE AGE
 Children show more creativity in their paly during early childhood that any other
time in their lives.
Typical Skills:
 Hand Skills and Leg Skills
Pattern of Early Socialization:
 Parallel Play: children play independently beside other children rather than
with them.
 Associative: children engage in similar or identical activities with other
children.
 Cooperative play: in which they are part members.
 Onlookers: means watching other children play but not playing with them.

4. Late Childhood: 6-12 years old

o Social skills such as sharing, communicating and conflict resolution are further
developing during this stage.
Developmental Tasks
 Physical Development: During late childhood the child gains greater control over
their body motors skills
 Social Development: Social skills such as sharing, communicating and conflict
resolution are further developing during this stage.

 Emotional Development: During late childhood stage it allows to control understand

their emotions, and as children develop empathy as such begin noticing and identifying
the emotions in others.

 Intellectual Development: During the late childhood the child knowledge if language
increase. It allows the child to complete tasks such as pluralising words of the time. By
age of 6 children know up to 2000-3000 words.

5. Adolescence: 10-24 years old

o The onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an
adult.
3 Stages of Adolescence
 Early Adolescence: The first stage and occurs from ages 10 to 14.
People in this stage become aware of their rapidly changing bodies and start to
worry about their physical appearance.
 Middle Adolescence: 15 to 17 years
A period when many teenagers experience systemic changes in their lives. Most
teenagers, by middle adolescence, have already begun to show signs of puberty
physically, such as facial hair, pubic hair, breast development, and other traits.
 Late Adolescence: The period of development in a person's life from ages 18 to
24 where in that person becomes a young adult. Late adolescence is arguably the
hardest of all three periods of adolescence because nothing stays the same.
6. Early Adulthood: between 18 and 40
 A stage of life when grown-ups become more independent and explore different life
possibilities. Concerned with developing the ability to share intimacy, seeking to form
relationships and find intimate love. Long‐term relationships are formed, and often
marriage and children result. The young adult is also faced with career decisions.
7. Middle Age: 40-65 years old
An important challenge is to develop a genuine concern for the welfare of future
generations and to contribute to the world through family and work. Accepting and
adjusting to physiological changes, such as menopause. Reaching and maintaining
satisfaction in one's occupation
8. Old Age: 65 and above
Retirement age when increasingly rapid pysical and mental decline are experienced.

» Puberty: The period during which growing boys and girls undergo the process of
sexual maturation.
» DEVELOPMENT OF INITIATIVE is also referred to as Preschool age.