PerDev Reviewer Page 1 ❺ Adolescence

➥ Puberty to 18 years old

Developmental Stages in
➥ transition age from childhood to
Middle and Late Adolescence
adulthood
➥ sex maturation
Human Development
➥ rapid physical development
➥ focuses on human growth and changes across
➥ changes in ways of feeling, thinking
the lifespan including PIPPECS:
and acting
▸ physical
▸ intellectual
❻ Early Adulthood
➥ 18 to 40 years old
▸ perceptual
➥ age of adjustment to new patterns of life
▸ personality
and roles such as spouse, parent and bread
▸ emotional growth
winner
▸ cognitive
▸ social
❼ Middle Age
➥ 40 to retirement
➥ also essential to understanding how humans:
➥ transition age when adjustment to initial
▸ learn
physical and mental decline are
▸ mature
experienced
▸ adapt
❽ Old Age
➥ Retirement to Death
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
➥ increasingly rapid physical and mental
PIE-LAE-MO
❶ Pre-Natal
decline are experienced

➥ Conception Birth
HAVIGHURST'S DEVELOPMETAL TASKS
➥ hereditary endowments and sex are fixed
➥ all body features are developed
❶ INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD

❷ Infancy
➥ 0 to 5
▸ Learning to walk
➥ Birth to 2 years old
▸ Learning to talk
➥ foundation age
▸ Learning to take solid foods
➥ basic behavior and organizing
▸ Readiness for reading
➥ ontogenic skills are developed
❸ Early Childhood
▸ Learning to control elimination of body
wastes
➥ 2 to 6 years old
▸ Learning sex differences and sexual
➥ pre-gang age
modesty
➥ exploratory and questioning
▸ Acquiring concepts and language
➥ language and elementary reasoning
▸ Learning to distinguish right from wrong

❹
➥ initial socialization is experienced
Late Childhood
❷ MIDDLE CHILDHOOD
➥ 6 to 12
➥ 6 to 12 years old
▸Learning physical skills necessary for
➥ gang and creative age
ordinary games
➥ development of:
▸ Building a wholesome attitude towards
➥ self-help skills
oneself
➥ social skills
▸ Learning to have good relationship with
➥ school skills
age-mates
➥ play skills
▸ Learning an appropriate sex role
▸ Achieving personal independence
▸ Developing of fundamental skills
▸ Developing conscience
▸ Developing acceptable attitudes
PerDev Reviewer Page 2 THE WHOLE BRAIN THEORY

❸ Adolescence The Brain

➥ 13 to 18
➥ one complex part of our body system
▸ Accepting one's physique
➥ functions of the human body are communicated
▸ Preparing for an economic career
▸ Preparing for marriage and famiy life
THE SPLIT-BRAIN THEORY
▸ Achieving mature relations with both sexes
By Dr. Rger Sperry
▸ Achieving emotional independence of adults
▸ The brain has 2 hemispheres that performs the
▸ Achieving a masculine or feminine social role
tasks differently with each other
▸ Acquiring values and an ethical system
▸ The Left Brain / Logic
▸ Desiring and achieving socially responsibility
➥ Language
behavior
❹ Early Adulthood
➥ Numbers
➥ Analytical Thinking
➥ 19 to 30
▸ The Right Brain / Creativity
▸ Selecting a mate
➥ Expression
▸ Starting an occupation
➥ Emotional Intelligence
▸ Starting a family
➥ Imagination
▸ Managing a home
▸ Rearing children
THE TRIUNE BRAIN THEORY
▸ Learning to live with a partner
By Dr. Paul MacLean
▸ Assuming civic responsibility
❺ Middle Adulthood
▸ The brain is divided into 3 parts.
▸ Neocortex / Rational Brain
➥ 30 to 60
➥ intellectual tasks
▸ Satisfactory career achievement
➣ language
▸ Developing adult leisure time activities
➣ planning
▸ Relating to one's spouse as a person
➣ abstraction
▸ Achieving adult social and civic responsibility
➣ perception
▸ Adjusting to aging parent
▸ Limbic System / Intermediate Brain
▸ Helping teenage children to become happy
➥ motivation and emotion involved in:
and responsible adults
➣ feeding
▸ Accepting the physiological changes
❻ Late Maturity
➣ reproductive
➣ parental behavior
▸ Adjusting to death of spouse
▸ Reptilian Complex / Primitive Brain
▸ Adjusting to decreasing strength and health
➥ controls self-preservation
▸ Adjusting to retirement and reduced income
➥ aggressive behavior of humans such as:
▸ Meeting social and civic obligations
➣ survival instinct
▸ Establishing satisfactory living quarters
▸ Establishing relations with one's own age
group

KEY LETTERS:
IMA-EML
PerDev Reviewer Page 3 Typical Occupations
▸ CEO of Technical Organizations
THE BRAIN DOMINANCE THEORY
▸ Stock Market Broker
By Dr. Ned Herrmann
▸ Chemist
▸ The brain has 4 parts / quadrants.
▸ Computer Programmer
CEREBRAL MODE ▸ Finance Manager
UPPER UPPER
LEFT RIGHT B. Sequential Thinking
Key Words
▸ Conservative
▸ Structured
▸ Organized

RIGHT MODE
LEFT MODE

▸ Detailed
▸ Planned
Preferred Activities
▸ Following directions
▸ Repetitive detailed
▸ Homework problems
▸ Time management and schedules
▸ Planning and organizing
LOWER LOWER
Responds Well To
LEFT RIGHT
LIMBIC MODE ▸ Agendas
▸ Goals
A. Analytical Thinking
▸ Objectives
Key Words
▸ Simple grpahs
▸ logical
▸ Presentation
▸ factual
▸ Stickler for time
▸ critical
▸ Step-by-step procedures before concluding
▸ technical
Vulnerabilities
▸ quantitative
▸ Reluctant to changes
▸ abstract
▸ Tends to miss the bigger picture
▸ impersonal
▸ Does not miss the bigger picture (?)
Preferred Activities
▸ Does not appreciate innovative ideas
▸ collecting data
▸ Avoids dynamic situations
▸ listening to informational lectures
Typical Occupations
▸ reading textbooks
▸ Technical Manager
▸ judging ideas based on facts, criteria and
▸ Operations Manager
logical reasoning
▸ Bookkeeper
Responds Well To
▸ Drill Sergeant
▸ Technical / Financial information, theories
▸ Supervisory Nurse
charts and graphs
▸ Construction Manager
▸ Formal approach
C. Interpersonal Thinking
▸ Data Heavy Content
Key Words
Vulnerabilities
▸ Emotional
▸ Too focused
▸ Spiritual
▸ May miss synergistic opportunities
▸ Feeling
▸ Favors individual vs group work
▸ Sensory
▸ Tends to place facts over people
▸ Kinesthetic
▸ Problems with delegating
PerDev Reviewer Page 4 Vulnerabilities
▸ Can be impractical
Preferred Activities
▸ Tend to overlook details
▸ Listening to and sharing
▸ May tend to procrastinate especially if they
▸ Looking for personal meaning
do not like what they are doing like
▸ Sensory input
repetitive tasks
▸ Teamwork
▸ Difficulty in prioritizing
▸ Win-win situations
Typical Occupations
Responds Well To
▸ Artist
▸ Creative and free flowing activities
▸ Entertainer
▸ Experiential activities like music and art
▸ Musician
▸ People-centered activities
▸ Entrepreneur
▸ Discussions
▸ Strategic Planner
Vulnerabilities
▸ Creative Writer
▸ Dislike for routine and structure activities
▸ Film Director
▸ Tendency to be impulsive and emotional
▸ Often misses out on details
QUADRANT A LEARNERS
Typical Occupations
▸ Logical thinking
▸ Marketing
▸ Analyzing information
▸ Sales
▸ Good in concluding based on facts and
▸ Real Estate
information
▸ Elementary School Teacher
▸ Expects exact information that are straight to
▸ Social Worker
the point
▸ Counselor
▸ Find it hard to express inner thoughts and
▸ Secretary
emotions
D. Imaginative Thinking
▸ Understand better when presented with number
Key Words
and quantities
▸ Visual
▸ Wants to be fed with lots of theories, numbers,
▸ Hollistic
data, logical explanations and researches
▸ Intuitive
▸ Have struggle with unclear or undefined
▸ Innovative
concepts or ideas
▸ Conceptual
Preferred Activities
QUADRANT B LEARNERS
▸ Looking at the big picture
▸ Easily grasp things in sequence
▸ Taking initiative
▸ Enjoy organizing ideas and things
▸ Simulations
▸ Assess situations and information
▸ Visual aids
▸ Apply what they learned Into practice
▸ Appreciate Beauty of a problem
▸ Demands for clear instructions and directions
▸ Brainstorming
▸ Find It hard to understand concepts without any
▸ Visionary
examples to shy how these things are applied
Responds Well To
▸ Challenge in taking risks and doing things that
▸ Fun activities
are not clearly defined to them
▸ Humor
▸ Future oriented activities
Quadrant A and B learners are often
▸ Experimentation
characterized as practical, reality-based, and
▸ Thought provoking and challenging
down-to-earth persons.
questions
▸ Visuals