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Havighurst'S Developmental Tasks During The Life Span

The document outlines Havighurst's developmental tasks across the lifespan, including tasks in babyhood/early childhood like learning to walk and talk, tasks in late childhood like developing social skills and a conscience, tasks in adolescence like achieving independence and preparing for a career, tasks in early adulthood like selecting a mate and raising children, tasks in middle age like relating to one's spouse and adjusting to aging parents, and tasks in old age like adjusting to declining health and retirement.

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Havighurst'S Developmental Tasks During The Life Span

The document outlines Havighurst's developmental tasks across the lifespan, including tasks in babyhood/early childhood like learning to walk and talk, tasks in late childhood like developing social skills and a conscience, tasks in adolescence like achieving independence and preparing for a career, tasks in early adulthood like selecting a mate and raising children, tasks in middle age like relating to one's spouse and adjusting to aging parents, and tasks in old age like adjusting to declining health and retirement.

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HAVIGHURSTS DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS DURING THE LIFE SPAN

Babyhood and Early childhood


Learning to take solid food
Learning to walk
Learning to talk
Learning to control the elimination of
body waste
Learning sex differences and sexual
modesty
Getting ready to read
Learning to distinguish right and wrong
and beginning to develop a conscience.
Late Childhood
Learning physical skills necessary for
ordinary games
Building a wholesome attitude towards
oneself as a growing organism
Learning to get along with age-mates
Beginning to develop appropriate
masculine or feminine social roles
Developing fundamental skills in reading
writing and calculating
Developing concepts necessary for
everyday living
Developing a conscience, a sense of
morality and a scale of values
Developing attitudes toward social
group and institution
Achieving personal independence
Adolescence
Achieving new and more mature
relations with age-mates of both sexes
Achieving a masculine or feminine
social roles
Accepting ones physique and using
ones body effectively
Desiring, accepting and achieving
socially responsible behavior
Achieving emotional independence from
parents and other adults
Preparing for an economic career
Preparing for marriage and family life

Acquiring a set of values and an ethical
system as a guide to behavior
developing an ideology
Early adulthood
Getting started in an Occupation
Selecting a mate
Learning to live with a married partner
Starting a family
Rearing Children
Managing a Home
Taking on civic responsibility
Finding a congenital Social group
Middle Age
Achieving adult civic and social
responsibility
Assisting teenage children to become
responsible and happy adult
Developing adult leisure-time activities
Relating oneself to ones spouse as a
person
Accepting and Adjusting to the
physiological changes of middle age
Reaching and maintaining satisfactory
performance on ones occupational Career
Adjusting to aging parents
Old Age
Adjusting to decreasing physical strength and
health
Adjusting to retirement and reduced income
Adjusting to death of spouse
Establishing an explicit affiliation with members
of ones age group
Establishing Satisfactory physical living
arrangement
Adapting to social roles in a flexible way

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