Bridging Paradigms

Positive Development in Adulthood and Cognitive Aging
Herausgeber: Sinnott, Jan D.; Cavanaugh, John C.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines positive development across adulthood with particular emphasis on postformal thought. The editors acknowledge that researchers have compiled a substantial body of descriptive evidence about the styles of thinking used by adults under certain conditions. The questions that remain are whether these styles reflect qualitative changes; how these styles develop; whether there are necessary precursors; why there is content specificity; what the relationship is to physiological or neurological development; whether adults can deliberately control postformal thought; how postformal thought develops in different cultures; what key developmental experiences, if any, are needed for postformal thought to develop; and what postformal thought means in a practical sense. These questions are addressed by the research and theory discussed in this volume. The contributors reflect a diversity of backgrounds assumptions, disciplines, and methods. Postformal thought and its correlates are described from physiological, psychological, sociological, anthropological, and clinical perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9780275936174
• ISBN-10: 0275936171
• Artikelnr.: 25569986

Autorenporträt

John C. Cavanaugh, Jan D. Sinnott

Inhaltsangabe

On Building Bridges, Developing Positively, and Postformal Thinking Coming
of Age: Confessions of a Nonconformist by John C. Cavanaugh Keeping One's
Balance in a Moving System: The Effects of the Multiple Personality
Disordered Patient on the Cognitive Development of the Therapist by Judith
Armstrong Age-Related Changes in Visual Processing May Result in Continuing
Cognitive Development by Julie R. Brannan and Cameron J. Camp Normal Aging
and Disease as Contributors to the Study of Cognitive Processing in Aging
by Jeffrey W. Elias, Merrill F. Elias, and P. K. Elias Reconceptualizing
the Nature of Dialectical Postformal Operational Thinking: The Effects of
Affectively Mediated Social Experiences by Ronald R. Irwin Bridging
Paradigms: The Role of a Change Agent in an International Technical
Transfer Project by Lynn Johnson Relativistic Operations: A Framework for
Conceptualizing Teachers' Everyday Problem Solving by Diane M. Lee Conflict
and Cooperation in Adulthood: A Role for Both? by John A. Meacham The
Importance of Interpersonal Relations for Formal Operations Development by
John A. Meacham Age Differences versus Age Deficits in Laboratory Tasks:
The Role of Research in Everyday Cognition by James M. Puckett, Hayne W.
Reese, Stanley H. Cohen, and Leslee K. Pollina Investigating the
Relationship between Cognition and Social Thinking in Adulthood:
Stereotyping and Attributional Processes by Jane L. Rankin and Judith L.
Allen Perceived Problem Relevancy and Its Relationship to Reasoning on
Everyday Problems by Richard A. Sebby and Dennis R. Papini Limits to
Problem Solving: Emotion, Intention, Goal Clarity, Health, and Other
Factors in Postformal Thought by Jan D. Sinnott What Do We Do to Help John?
A Case Study of Postformal Problem Solving in a Family Making Decisions
about an Acutely Psychotic Member by Jan D. Sinnott The Influences of
Formal versus Informal Education on Planning Skills: A Cultural Perspective
by Fabienne Tanon Expert Systems in Nature: Spoken Language Processing and
Adult Aging by Arthur Wingfield and Elizabeth A. L. Stine Author Index
Subject Index