The Development of Logic in Adulthood

Postformal Thought and Its Applications

• Author(s): Jan Sinnott,
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
• Pages: 372
• ISBN_10: 0306457237
  ISBN_13: 9780306457234
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Psychology / General , Psychology / Clinical Psychology , Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition ,

Description:... In this book Jan D. Sinnott synthesizes her 20 years of research on lifespan cognitive development to describe the growth of complex (or `postformal') thought in adults. She shows specifically how adults improve mentally over a lifetime and learn to think in more complex and wiser ways. Applications of postformal thought are demonstrated in such diverse areas as - family relations - adult education - personal identity - and spirituality. Chapters examine relations between postformal thought and pertinent variables such as age, health, memory, and vocabulary. Other sections deal with issues in humanistic psychology such as - guided imagery - mind - body medicine - and creative intentionality.