Developmental Tasks
Developmental Tasks
Developmental Tasks
Infancy and Early Middle Childhood Adolescence Early Adulthood Middle Adulthood Later Maturity
Childhood (0-5) (6-12) (13-18) (19-29) (30-60) (61 and over)
1. Learning to walk 1. Learning physical skills 1. Achieving mature 1. Selecting a mate 1. Helping teenage children 1. Adjusting to decreasing
2. Learning to take solid necessary for ordinary relations with both sexes 2. Learning to live with a to become happy and strength and health
foods games 2. Achieving masculine or partner responsible adults 2. Adjusting to retirement
3. Learning to talk 2. Building a wholesome feminine social role 3. Starting a family 2. Achieving adult social and and reduced income
4. Learning to control the attitude towards oneself 3. Accepting one’s 4. Rearing children civic responsibility 3. Adjusting to death of
elimination of body wastes 3. Learning to get along with physique 5. Managing a home 3. Satisfactory career spouse
5. Learning sex differences agemates 4. Achieving emotional 6. Starting an occupation achievement 4. Establishing relations
and sexual modesty 4. Learning an appropriate independence of adults 7. Assuming civic 4. Developing adult leisure with one’s own age group
6. Acquiring concepts and sex role 5. Preparing for marriage responsibility time activities 5. Meeting social and civic
language to describe 5. Developing fundamental and family life. 5. Relating to one’s spouse obligations
social and physical reality skills in reading, writing, 6. Preparing for an as a person 6. Establishing satisfactory
7. Readiness for reading and calculating economic career 6. Accepting the living quarters
8. Learning to distinguish 6. Developing concepts for 7. Acquiring values and an physiological changes as
right from wrong and everyday living ethical system to guide middle age
developing a conscience 7. Developing conscience, behavior 7. Adjusting to aging parents
morality, and a scale of 8. Desiring ad achieving
values socially responsible
8. Achieving personal behavior
independence
9. Developing acceptable
attitudes towards society