EARLY ADULTHOOD

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EARLY ADULTHOOD
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CHAPTER 18

• COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

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POSTFORMAL THOUGHT
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• Involves both abstract, objective thinking
  and subjective thinking

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• Considers emotions, motives, and personal
  experiences in decision making

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• Adapts to ambiguities, partial truths, infinite
  variables

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• Suitable for solving many everyday problems

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TRADITIONAL VS POSTFORMAL THINKING

• TRADITIONAL
• Uses formal operational thought
• Suited to situations with limited possibilities

• POSTFORMAL
• Relies more on adaptive logic
• Suited to situations with unlimited possibilities

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MORAL REASONING
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• BEGINNING OF EARLY ADULTHOOD
• Women consider how a decision will affect others
• Men base decisions on principles of right and
  justice

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• MIDWAY THROUGH EARLY ADULTHOOD
• Each integrates some of the other genders
  thinking style
• Each moves towards more reflective, less absolute
  decision making

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END OF CHAPTER 18