TLE 8

DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES

SIX MAJOR STAGES IN HUMAN LIFE

PUBERTY
· Beginning of adolescence
Infancy and Early Childhood 0-6 · Period of time when your body begins to develop and
change
HORMONES
Middle childhood 6-12
· Gonadotropin – Releasing Hormone (GnRH)
Adolescence 13-18 o Female
o Male
Early Adulthood 19-30 PHYSICAL TRAITS
· Physical traits about your body
Middle Age 30-60
· How you dress and maintain neatness is also included in
Later Maturity 60+ your physical traits
MENTAL TRAITS
· The way you think and learn
SOCIAL TRAITS
· How a person interacts with other people ; how our interaction with different social groups or
individuals affect our way of thinking
EMOTIONAL TRAITS
· Our emotions and how we handle them responsibly
PERSONALITY
· Totality of a person
· Physical combined with the inner self
· Affected by our heredity (genes), and our environment
HEREDITY
· Genes are transmitted by parents
SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
· Consist of individuals, groups, and institutions with whom the person interacts with from
childhood to adulthood
TEMPERAMENT
· Our patterns of behavior. How we usually respond to situations
· Person’s nature ; one’s usual way of thinking or acting
· It is our natural behavior
4 PRIMARY TEMPERAMENTS

TEMPERAMENT DESCRIPTION STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES

Choleric • most powerful • Activist • quick tempered

• ambitious , leader like • confident • offensive
• dominant • perfectionist • proud
• goal oriented • fearless • rude
• want total control over • most insensitive • self centred
themselves and everyone
around them

Sanguine • an extrovert with a high • enjoy life and always • forgetful

need to include and be happy • does not want to be
close with others • optimistic alone
• always cheerful • excel in communication • disorganised
• talkative oriented things • lacks discipline
• sympathy for others • does many things at
• sincere once and most of the
time does not manage to
finish everything or
anything
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 Phlegmatic • relaxed and quiet
• very peaceful at heart
• they seldom use the
ideas and talents they
have because it
requires much energy
and active
participation
• quietly gets the job
done
Melancholy • very secretive with
whom to socialise
with
• detach from
environment
• self motivated
• set high standards
• becomes sad when
things go wrong
PERSONAL HYGIENE AND GOOD GROOMING
HYGEINE
· Based on WHO : refers to conditions and
practices that help maintain health and
prevent the spread of diseases
GOOD GROOMING
· Being neat, clean, and appropriately dresses
DURING ADOLESCENCE
· Acne
o A condition that develops in the
pores of the skin and around the
hair follicles and glands that
produce oil
o Sebum + dead skin = clogged pores
· Skin
o Wash face with a mild soap
o Apply lotion and sunblock with UV
protection
· Body Odor
o Bathe and shower using soap and
scrub the entire body with a
washcloth
o Use antiperspirants and deodorant
o Sweat glands : eccrine, apocrene
• Peace loving and • slow in movement
peace maker • passive and
• low-key unresponsive
• adjust to every • easily manipulated by
situation others
• king hearted
• does not discriminate
• perfectionist • private
• analytical • gets lonely easily
• deep thinker • emotional
• dependable • secretive
• deep commitment
1. Dress appropriately
• always wear appropriate and respectful clothes
• considerations : age, gender, event, place/
country, time, body type
2. Take care of your hair
• manage your hair
• wash your hair regularly with shampoo and
conditioner
• tie your hair especially when outdoors
• brush hair regularly
• dont share combs and brushes
3. Clean your nose, ears, nails, etc.
• always trim your nails if needed
• get a manicure and pedicure once in a while but
avoid putting nail polish
• wash ears with wash cloth. Do not forget behind
the ears
• prevent using cotton buds in cleaning the
inside of your ears
• never clean your nose in public
• brush your teeth 3 times a day (after every
meal) for 2-9 minutes
• clean your tongue using your brush
• use dental floss
• our body needs 8 hours of sleep
• having complete sleep will improve our memory
• sleeping makes your body tissues to be
replaced and restored
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 MAKING HEALTHFUL CHOICES
PHYSICAL FITNESS
· Having your body work the best that it can
REST AND SLEEP
· Helps relax the muscles

FOOD GROUPS
FOOD
· Provides the body with energy needed for different activities that we do everyday
NUTRITION AND NUTRIENTS
· Science of food and its relation to health
· Substance we get from food that is essential for growth and sustaining body activities
ENERGY GIVING FOODS
· Main source : carbohydrates and fats
· Major sources of calories
o Standard measure of energy
· Unit used to express the value of food
· Amount of energy that the body burns each day
BODY BUILDING FOODS
· Give your nutrients for building strong bones and teeth
· Major source : proteins
BODY REGULATING FOODS
· Helps regulate body processes
· Food that has a lot of vitamins, minerals, water, and fiber
· Body regulators : hormone, enzymes
FUNCTION OF FOOD NUTRIENTS
· Build new cells and repair those that are worn out
· Regulate body processes
· Supply energy to carry out daily activities
CALORIE REQUIREMENT
· Age, height, weight, kind of lifestyle
UNIT OF MEASUREMENT

Calorie cal

Kilocalorie Kcal

Kilojoule KJ

1 cal 4.186 kilojoules

NUTRITION FACTS
· Information you need to make healthy choices throughout the day

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 TASKS OF ADOLESCENCE
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
1. Appreciate one’s body and physical characteristics
2. Achieve emotional independence to parents and other adults
3. Harmonious favorable relations with people of similar age group
4. Develop and apply abstract thinking skills
5. Identify meaningful and moral standards, values, and beliefs
PECS
· Refers to the key characteristics that a successful entrepreneur should have in order to be
successful
o Organize, manage, and assume risk of a business
· Entrepreneur
o Willing to take a risk to build a business
o Resourceful
o Creative
o Has courage and determination
1. Leader
o Organizational goals
2. Hardworking
o Exceeds existing standards and improves past performances
3. Innovative
o Creating new ideas, products

4. Opportunity seeker
o Ability to seek and act on new business opportunities
5. Risk Taker
o Turns problems into opportunities
o Careful in making decisions
6. Information Seeker
o Seeks important data
7. Committed worker
o Accepts full responsibility for problems in completing a job for customers
o Expressed close concern for satisfaction for customers
8. Goal Setter
o SMART
o Specific, measureable, attainable, relevant, time based
9. Salesman
o Applies various struggles to influence, persuade, or convince others
10. Self confidence
o Positive thinkers so they will succeed in their endeavours

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