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Adult Development is a branch of Developmental Psychology

Developmental psychology

Developmental psychology, also known as human development, is the science study of systematic psychology changes that occur in human beings over the course of the life span....
. One simple breakdown of the field is to look at its three dimensions.

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Adult Development is a branch of Developmental Psychology

Developmental psychology

Dimension 1: Change
Change

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: Loss
Loss

Loss may refer to:*A negative difference between retail price and cost of production*An event in which the team or individual in question did not win....
, Stasis
Stasis

The term stasis may refer to* A state of stability, in which all forces are equal and opposing, therefore they cancel out each other.* Stasis , as defined by Thucydides as a set of symptoms indicating an internal disturbance in both individuals and states...
, Positive Adult Development
Positive Adult Development

Positive Adult development is a form of adult development. It can be divided into at least six parts: Model of hierarchical complexity , knowledge, experience, expertise, wisdom, and spirituality....
Dimension 2: Types of Change: Maturation
Maturation

Maturation could refer to any of the following:* Fetal development* Developmental biology* Erikson's stages of psychosocial development* Or physical maturation of any biological life form - see individual articles for maturation of different life forms....
, Learning
Learning

Learning is acquiring new knowledge, behaviors, skills, Value s, preferences or understanding, and may involve synthesizing different types of information....
, Developmental stage, and Periods
Dimension 3: Psychological processes in Adult Development.

For example, Positive Adult Developmental may be divided into at least six parts: hierarchical complexity

Model of hierarchical complexity

The model of hierarchical complexity, is a framework for scoring how complex a behavior is. It quantifies the order of hierarchy complexity of a task based on mathematical principles of how the information is organized and of information science....
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Model of hierarchical complexity

Knowledge

Knowledge is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation....
, experience

Experience

Experience as a general concept comprises knowledge of or skill in or observation of some thing or some event gained through involvement in or exposure to that thing or event....
, expertise, wisdom

Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, understanding, experience, discretion, and Intuition , along with a capacity to apply these qualities well towards finding solutions to problems....
, and spirituality.

Nondevelopmental forms include adulthood and adult human behavior

Human behavior

Human behavior is the collection of behaviors exhibited by human beings and influenced by culture, attitude s, emotions, Value s, ethics, authority, rapport, hypnosis, persuasion, coercion and/or genetics....
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While adult development has long been a subject reserved for academia and medical professions, in recent years, adult development has become an integral part of leadership and executive development

Executive development

Executive development is the whole of activities aimed at developing the skills and competencies of those that have executive positions in organisations....
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Adult Development

External links

Journal of Adult Development

Psychology and Aging

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