Developmental Task (Robert Havighurst)
Summary
TLDRThe video script outlines Robert Havighurst's developmental tasks across life's stages, emphasizing the importance of achieving these tasks for happiness and success. It details tasks from infancy to later maturity, including learning basic skills, developing social roles, and adjusting to life changes. Each stage's tasks, such as learning to walk, talk, and distinguish right from wrong in early childhood, to adjusting to retirement and aging in later life, are crucial for personal growth and societal contribution.
Takeaways
- 🚶 Learning to walk is a crucial developmental task for infants and early childhood.
- 🍚 The ability to take solid foods is a significant milestone in early childhood development.
- 🗣️ Language acquisition, including learning to talk and understanding social and physical reality, is fundamental for early childhood.
- 🚽 Developing control over bodily functions, such as elimination, is an essential developmental task for young children.
- 👧👦 Recognizing and learning about sex differences and sexual modesty are part of the developmental tasks in early childhood.
- 📚 Preparing for reading and developing a moral compass are key tasks for children aged 0 to 5.
- 🏀 Middle childhood involves learning physical skills and building a positive self-image.
- 👫 Social development in middle childhood includes learning to interact with peers and adopting an appropriate sex role.
- 📈 Adolescence is marked by the pursuit of mature relationships, emotional independence, and preparation for future responsibilities like marriage and career.
- 💼 Early adulthood focuses on selecting a mate, starting a family, and beginning a career, along with civic responsibilities.
- 👨👩👧👦 Middle adulthood involves nurturing children into responsible adults, achieving career success, and adjusting to physiological changes.
- 👴 Later maturity is about adjusting to retirement, accepting health changes, and establishing satisfactory living conditions.
Q & A
What is the definition of a developmental task according to Robert Havighurst?
-A developmental task, as defined by Robert Havighurst, is a task that arises at a certain period in life, the successful achievement of which leads to happiness and success with later tasks, while failure leads to unhappiness, social disapproval, and difficulty with their tasks.
List the developmental tasks for infancy and early childhood as outlined by Havighurst.
-The developmental tasks for infancy and early childhood (0-5 years old) include learning to walk, take solid foods, talk, control the elimination of body waste, learn sex differences and sexual modesty, develop concepts and language to describe social and physical reality, readiness for reading, and learning to distinguish right from wrong and developing a conscience.
What are the developmental tasks for middle childhood according to Havighurst?
-For middle childhood (6-12 years old), the tasks include learning physical skills for ordinary games, building a wholesome attitude towards oneself, getting 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 the scale of values, and developing acceptable attitudes toward oneself.
What developmental tasks does Havighurst suggest for adolescents?
-Adolescents (13-18 years old) should achieve mature relations with both sexes, achieve a masculine or feminine social role, accept their physique, achieve emotional independence from adults, prepare for marriage and family life, prepare for an economic career, acquire values and an ethical system to guide behavior, and desire and achieve socially responsible behavior.
What are the developmental tasks for early adulthood as per Havighurst's framework?
-In early adulthood (19-29 years old), the tasks include selecting a mate, learning to live with a partner, starting a family, rearing children, managing a home, starting an occupation, and assuming civic responsibility.
How does Havighurst define the developmental tasks for middle adulthood?
-Middle adulthood (30-60 years old) involves helping teenage children 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, and adjusting to aging parents.
What are the developmental tasks for later maturity according to Havighurst?
-In later maturity (61 and over), the tasks include adjusting to decreasing strength and health, adjusting to retirement and reduced income, adjusting to the death of a spouse, establishing relations with one's own age group, meeting social and civic obligations, and establishing satisfactory living quarters.
How does the successful achievement of developmental tasks impact an individual's life according to the script?
-According to the script, the successful achievement of developmental tasks leads to happiness and success with later tasks, which suggests a positive impact on an individual's life.
What are the consequences of failing to achieve developmental tasks as mentioned in the script?
-Failing to achieve developmental tasks can lead to unhappiness, social disapproval, and difficulty with subsequent tasks, indicating negative consequences for an individual's life.
How does the script emphasize the importance of achieving developmental tasks?
-The script emphasizes the importance of achieving developmental tasks by outlining specific tasks for different life stages and highlighting the positive outcomes of successful achievement and the negative consequences of failure.
What is the significance of the developmental tasks for each age period as described in the script?
-The significance of the developmental tasks for each age period lies in their role in shaping an individual's happiness, success, social approval, and ability to handle life's challenges at each stage.
Outlines
🚼 Developmental Tasks in Early Life
This paragraph outlines the developmental tasks according to Robert Haviger's theory, focusing on infancy and early childhood from zero to five years old. It lists eight key tasks including learning to walk, eat solid foods, speak, control bodily functions, understand sex differences, develop language skills, readiness for reading, discern right from wrong, and form a conscience. These tasks are crucial for happiness and success in later life stages.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Developmental Task
💡Infancy and Early Childhood
💡Middle Childhood
💡Adolescence
💡Early Adulthood
💡Middle Adulthood
💡Later Maturity
💡Conscience
💡Sex Differences
💡Social Role
💡Economic Career
Highlights
Developmental tasks are specific challenges expected at each life stage, according to Robert Havighurst.
Successful completion of developmental tasks leads to happiness and success in later stages.
Failure to achieve developmental tasks can result in unhappiness and difficulties.
Infancy and early childhood tasks include learning to walk, talk, and control body functions.
Middle childhood tasks involve learning physical skills and developing a sense of self.
Adolescence is marked by achieving mature relations, accepting one's physique, and preparing for adult roles.
Early adulthood tasks include selecting a mate, starting a family, and beginning a career.
Middle adulthood focuses on helping children become responsible adults and achieving career success.
Later maturity tasks involve adjusting to retirement, accepting physiological changes, and establishing satisfactory living quarters.
Learning to distinguish right from wrong and developing a conscience is a key task in early childhood.
Adolescents must prepare for marriage, family life, and an economic career.
Early adults are tasked with managing a home and assuming civic responsibilities.
Middle adults must relate to their spouse as a person and adjust to aging parents.
Establishing relations with one's own age group is a task in later maturity.
Meeting social and civic obligations is important in the later stages of life.
Developing an ethical system to guide behavior is a task for adolescents.
Accepting the death of a spouse and adjusting to decreasing strength and health are late maturity challenges.
Transcripts
in each stage of development
a certain task or tasks are expected of
every individual
robert havigers defines developmental
task as one that arises at a certain
period in life
the successful achievement of which
leads to happiness and success
with later tasks while failure leads to
unhappiness
socialist approval and difficulty with
their task
here are the developmental tasks of
havigert's
six major age periods
infancy and early childhood from zero to
five years old
number one learning to walk number two
learning to take solid foods number
three
learning to talk number four
learning to control the elimination of
body waste
number five learning sex differences
and sexual modesty number six
a quality concepts and language to
describe social and physical reality
number seven readiness for reading
number eight learning to distinguish
right from wrong
and developing a conscience
middle childhood from 6 to 12 years old
number one learning physical skills
necessary for ordinary games
number two building a wholesome attitude
towards oneself
number three learning to get along with
age mates
number four learning an appropriate sex
role
number five developing fundamental
skills
in reading writing and calculating
number six developing concepts necessary
for everyday living
number seven developing conscience
morality and the scale of values
number eight developing acceptable
attitudes toward oneself
adolescence from 13 to 18 years old
number one achieving mature relations
with both sexes
number two achieving a masculine or
feminine social role
number three accepting one's physique
number four achieving emotional
independence of adults
number five preparing for marriage and
family life
number six preparing for an economic
career
number seven acquiring values and
ethical system to guide behavior
number eight desiring and achieving
socially
responsible behavior
early adulthood from 19 to 29 years old
number one
selecting a mate number two
learning to live with a partner number
three
starting a family number four
rearing children number five
managing a home number six
starting an occupation number seven
assuming civic responsibility
middle adulthood from 30 to 60 years old
number one
helping a teenage children to become
happy and responsible adults
number two achieving adult social and
civic responsibility
number three satisfactory career
achievement
number four developing adult leisure
time activities
number five relating to one spouse as a
person
number six accepting the physiological
changes of middle age
number seven adjusting to aging parent
later maturity from 61 and over
number one adjusting to decreasing
strength and health
number two adjusting to retirement and
reduced income
number three adjusting to death of
spouse
number four establishing relations with
one's own age group
number five meeting social and civic
obligations
and number six establishing satisfactory
living quarters
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