AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Developmental milestones are behaviors or physical skills seen in infants and children as they grow and develop. Rolling over, crawling, walking, and talking are all considered milestones. The milestones are different for each age range. There is a normal range in which a child may reach each milestone.

Detailed explanation-2: -Learning physical skills, ordinary games. Building wholesome attitudes towards oneself as a growing organism. Learning to get along with age-mates. Learning appropriate sex role, i.e., masculine or feminine role.

Detailed explanation-3: -Milestones usually are categorized into five major areas: physical growth, cognitive development, emotional and social development, language development, and sensory and motor development.

Detailed explanation-4: -A developmental task is one that arises predictably and consistently at or about a certain period in the life of the individual (Havighurst, 1948 and 1953). He believed that learning is basic to life and that people continue to learn through out life.