In: Anatomy and Physiology
Human development is a step wise process which begins from infancy to adulthood. The basic stages of human development are infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood
1) INFANCY - infancy is the first important stage of human development. Many physical changes are occurred during this stage because new born gains control over its body. However, infants rely on parents to meet most of their needs
2) CHILDHOOD - the next stage of human development is childhood. During this stage, children start to explore and develop a sence of Independence. Eventually, children learn to make their own decisions and they discover that their actions have consequences, in this stage most development of children occurs.
3) ADOLESCENCE - during adolescence puberty is attained. Puberty cause many physical changes to takes place, and adolescent must adapt to their changing bodies. Adolescent try to find their place, they may experiment with different roles and make attempts to seperate from authority figures.
4) ADULTHOOD - early adulthood involves many physical as young adults decides where they want to live. Who they want to live with, and what type of work they want to do
After this, middle adulthood occurs in which the adults begins to deal with the physical signs of aging this is followed by late adulthood. In this stage the senior citizens tag is given to an individual which provides benefits to the citizens . but stage is often characterized by many emotional and physiological changes