STAGES OF

HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT
AND
DEVELOPMENTA
L MILESTONES
Week 2
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOME
Explain human development
and the factors that affect
development.
NATURE OF DEVELOPMENT
Growth, Development, and
Maturity: differences

Growth quantitative changes

Development qualitative
changes (either progressive or
orderly and coherent)
NATURE OF DEVELOPMENT
Maturity the end or goal of
growth and development; the
completion of quantitative
and qualitative changes.
Maturity makes human with
the capacity to function.
FACTORS OF DEVELOPMENT
Heredity is the transfer of
certain characteristics/traits
to the offspring through the
genes of parents/ancestors at
the time of fertilization.
HOW ARE TRAITS PASSED
THROUGH HEREDITY?
Fertilization or conception is the union of human
ovum and sperm.
HEREDITY
Reproductive cells or germ cells has
23 pairs of chromosomes (46)
Chromosome is made up of long
strands of DNA or deoxyribonucleic
acid, a genetic substance that carries
hereditary information (& instruction)
Genes carry the heredity traits.
Human genome is the complete set of
genes.
HEREDITY
DOMINANT AND RECESSIVE GENES
Dominant genes determined the
individual trait like brown eyes, dark hair,
curly hair, normal color vision, and normal
blood.
Recessive genes have the ability to linger
on from generation to generation without
being revealed like blue eyes, light blonde
hair, straight hair, baldness,
colorblindedness, congenital deafness,
night blindness.
PRINCIPLES OF HEREDITY
Principle of Reproduction
Individuals of the same
family have similar
genes and traits.
Principle of Variation

No two individuals of the same

kind are very exactly alike.
PRINCIPLES OF HEREDITY
Principle of Chance
Genes are assorted by
chance and there is no way of
controlling the assortment.
Each child will be different
from every one else.
PRINCIPLE OF HEREDITY
Principle of Dominance and Recessiveness
If both members of a gene pair are
dominant, the child will manifest the trait
of dominant gene.
If one gene is dominant and the other is
recessive, the child will manifest the trait of
dominant gene but will also carry the
recessive gene.
A recessive trait can only appear when
both genes of the parents are recessive.
PRINCIPLE OF HEREDITY
Principle of Sex-Linked Traits
Pair 23 (sex chromosomes)
determine the sex of the
individual and carries gene for
certain traits that are called sex
linked like color blindness,
hemophilia or baldness.
ENVIRONMENT (TWO SOURCES)
Internal environment is the
immediate environment
including intracellular
environment (genetic materials
held by the cell membrane) and
extracellular environment
(blood, hormones, lymph fluids)
ENVIRONMENT (TWO SOURCES)
External environment
includes the prenatal
(conditions before birth) and
postnatal (life of the child
after birth).
STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
Prenatal Period from conception to birth, lasts
about 266-280 days (Germinal Stage, Embryonic
Stage, Fetal Stage)
Postnatal Period from birth onwards.

Childhood Period
Infancy Stage
Babyhood
Early Childhood Preschool Age
Late Childhood Smart Age, Gang Age
Adolescence (Early & Late Adolescence)
Adulthood (Early, Middle, Late)
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS THEORY
BY (ROBERT J. HAVIGHURST)
development is continuous
throughout the entire lifespan,
occurring in stages, where the
individual moves from one stage
to the next by means of
successful resolution of problems
or performance of developmental
tasks
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS THEORY
BY (ROBERT J. HAVIGHURST)
If the person successfully
accomplishes and masters the
developmental task, he feels pride
and satisfaction, and consequently
earns his community or societys
approval. This success provides a
sound foundation which allows the
individual to accomplish tasks to be
encountered at later stages.
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS THEORY
BY (ROBERT J. HAVIGHURST)
Conversely, if the individual is not
successful at accomplishing a task, he
is unhappy and is not accorded the
desired approval by society, resulting
in the subsequent experience of
difficulty when faced with succeeding
developmental tasks. This theory
presents the individual as an active
learner who continually interacts with
a similarly active social environment.