1. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT - YOUNG ADULTHOOD

    1. Post Formal Operations

      1. Characteristics (Kramer)

        1. Knowledge is relative & nonabsolute
        2. Accepts contradictions
        3. Synthesizes contradictions into coherent wholes


    2. Arlin ----->  Problem Finding

    3. Riegel -----> Change & Instability

    4. Labouvie-Vief -----> Integrating abstract & emotional modes

    5. K. Warner Schaie ----->  Contextual Knowledge

      1. Period of Acquisition (encompasses Piagetian stages)
      2. Achieving stage (Young Adulthood)
      3. Response stage (Middle Age) Executive stage
      4. Reintegrative (Late Life)

    6. College/University Experience

      1. Effects: Changes in thinking & knowing
      2. Perry's Model and related research

        1. Basic dualism ---Received knowing
        2. Multiplicity ----- Subjective & Procedural knowing
        3. Contextual relativism ------ Constructed knowing