Joshua curameng
- 2. • Human Development focuses on human growth and changes across the lifespan, including physical, cognitive, social, intellectual, perceptual, personality and emotional growth.
- 3. • The study of human development stages is essential to understanding how humans learn, mature and adapt. Throughout their lives, humansgo through various stages of development
- 4. • The human being is either in a states of growth or decline, but either condition imparts changes. Same aspects of our life change very little over time, are consistent. Other aspects change dramatically. By understanding these changes, we can better respond and plan ahead effectively.
- 5. 1. Pre-natal (Conception to birth) • Age when hereditary endowments and sex are fixed and all body features, both external and internal are developed.
- 6. 2. Infancy (Birth to 2 years) • Foundation age when basic behavior are organized and many ontogenetic maturation skills are developed.
- 7. 3. Early Childhood (2 to 6 years) • Pre-gang age, exploratory, and questioning. Language and elementary reasoning are acquired and initial socialization is experienced.
- 8. 4. Late Childhood (6 to 12 years) • Gang and creativity age when self-help skills, social skills, school skills, and play are developed
- 9. 5. Adolescence (puberty to 18 years) • Transition age from childhood to adulthood when sex maturation and rapid physical development occur resulting to changes in ways of feeling, thingking and acting.
- 10. 6. Early Adulthood (18 to 40 years) • Age of adjusting to new patterns of life and roles such us spouse, parent and bread winner.
- 11. 7. Middle Age (40 years to retirement) • Transition age when adjustment to initial physical and mental decline are experienced.
- 12. 8. Old Age (Retirement to death) • Retirement age when increasingly repid physical and mental decline are experienced.