...Michael J. Chandler; Robert G. Boutilier This article concerns abilities that allow young persons to grasp essential features of open or ‘negentropic’ systems and relates these abilities to success and failure on measures of concrete and formal operational thought. Attention is focused first...

... a predetermined end state. The model is illustrated in relation to the contextuality of formal operational thinking (viewed as embedded in a literate culture) and in connection with the development of aesthetic versus theoretic forms of knowing (as a characteristic difference between Eastern and Western cultures...

... of 30 women between the ages of 25 and 60; 15 atypical subjects were members of a spiritual community, and 15 standard subjects, matched for age and education, were not members of a spiritual community. There were no significant differences between the groups on formal operational level...

...Leslie Smith Piaget’s logical model of formal operations is problematic since it is unclear how Piaget’s logic should be understood. In a recent review, Braine and Rumain conclude that neither of the two available interpretations is adequate. Under one interpretation, formulae which should...

... of contradiction, and (3) integration of contradiction into an overriding whole. Formal operational thought shares with Pepper’s [1942] analytic world views the assumptions of independence of variables and underlying stability, while post-formal operational thought shares with the synthetic world views...

... Adult development Cognitive development Epistemological development Formal operations Moral development Abstract. This article provides an alternative conception of postconventional moral development which fits existing data on late adolescent and adult moral judgment better than Kohlberg's...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Existential psychology Formal operations Level of discourse Moral development Social development Two-phase model Hum. Dev. 22: 89 112 (1979) K oh lb erg s Moral Stage T h eory A Piagetian Revision1 John C. Gibbs Harvard...

...Jan Dynda Sinnott Everyday, familiar materials and formal materials were used to test the Piagetian classification and formal operational abilities of highly educated adults of both sexes. 30 subjects were in their 30s, and 30 were of retirement age. These adult subjects did not show mastery...

...Sidney Strauss; Moshe Kroy Piaget’s conceptualization of concrete and formal operations is presented. The main contention is that Piaget has obfuscated logic, metaphysics, and methodology. The elucidation of this point and the proposal of an alternative understanding of formal operations include...

...Roger A. Webb 25 children ranging in age from 6 to 11 years whose IQ’s were in excess of 160 were given three Piagetian tests of advanced concrete operations and two tests of formal operations. All children passed all concrete operations problems, but only four of the oldest boys passed the formal...

...Augusto Blasi; Emily C. Hoeffel The relations between the development of formal operations and the development of the adolescent personality, as hypothesized by Inhelder and Piaget, were analyzed. The concept of possibility and reflectivity, it was argued, have a variety of meanings; once...

...Deanna Kuhn The author reflects on Piaget’s 1972 article, ‘Intellectual evolution from adolescence to adulthood,’ addressed to questions regarding what he alleged to be the final, most advanced level of cognition in his developmental stage theory – formal operations, as described in his 1958 volume...