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Bridging Paradigms: Positive Development in Adulthood and Cognitive Aging

Bridging Paradigms: Positive Development in Adulthood and Cognitive Aging

Hardcover

Aging & Elder CareGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0275936171
ISBN13: 9780275936174
Publisher: Praeger
Published: May 30 1991
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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