Session 5: Robert Havighurst's Developmental Tasks Theory

Question 1

________ was a professor, physicist, educator, and aging expert.
Havighurst worked and published well into his 80s. According to his family, Havighurst died of Alzheimer’s disease at the age of ninety. He proposed that all individuals progress through a series of developmental stages, each comprising a series of developmental tasks

Answer 1

Robert James Havighurst

Question 2

Is a task which an individual has to and wants to solve in a particular life-period.

Answer 2

Development task

Question 3

What are the 3 characteristics of Development Task?

Answer 3

1. Biological development
2. Personal characteristics
3. Sensitive periods

Question 4

when an individual is mature enough to learn the
developmental tasks. These tasks may be physical like walking, cognitive like learning to read, or social where the person develops significant relationships.

Answer 4

Sensitive periods

Question 5

The society in which the person lives,and the resultant cultural influences.

Answer 5

Sensitive periods

Question 6

What are the 6 stages of Development?

Answer 6

1. Infancy & early childhood
2. Middle childhood
3. Adolescence
4. Early adulthood
5. Middle age
6. Later maturity

Question 7

What are the 3 different sources in Havighurst bio?

Answer 7

1. Biology
2. Psychology
3. Sociology

Question 8

Based on physical maturation example, learning to walk, talk, and behave acceptably with the opposite sex during adolescence; adjusting to menopause during middle age.

Answer 8

Biology

Question 9

Involves personal values and aspirations. These personal factors result from the interaction between ontogenetic and environmental factors, and play an active role in the emergence of specific developmental tasks.

Ex: Choosing a certain occupational pathway

Answer 9

Psychology

Question 10

Relates to socio-structural and cultural forces. Such influences are based on, for instance, laws, and culturally shared expectations of development.

Ex: Minimum age of marriage

Answer 10

Sociology

Question 11

What are the 3 developmental tasks?

Answer 11

1. Adulthood Developmental Tasks
2. Middle-age Developmental Tasks
3. Old Age or Later Maturity Developmental Tasks

Question 12

Mainly located in family, work,and. Social life. Which described as finding a mate, learning to live with a marriage partner, having and rearing children, and managing the family and one’s home.

Answer 12

Adulthood Developmental Tasks

Question 13

Arises from changes within organism, from environmental pressures and above all from demands or obligations laid upon the individual by his own values and aspirations.

Ex: Achieving adult responsibilities, maintaining a standard of living, assisting children with the transition to adulthood, and adjusting to the physiological changes of middle age and related aspects.

Answer 13

Middle-age Developmental Tasks

Question 15

At this age most individuals retire from their jobs formally. They begin to develop some. Concern and occasional anxiety over their physical and psychological health.

Answer 15

Old Age or Later Maturity Development Tasks