I found it interesting that adult cognitive skills are studied use the post formal approach, a psychometric approach and an information- processing approach.
I looked into post formal thought a little and explored criticisms as well as generated my own questions of applicability. Postformal thought was a spin off of Piaget's fourth stage, formal operation thought. Postformal thinking has the following characteristics: flexibility, open-mindedness to multiple logistics and anticipating problems. Postformal thought has some criticisms such as this form of advanced thinking might be paradoxical, and cannot be integrated with interpersonal relationships, and it's only used for the problems that require scientific thinking and logical mathematical analyses. In the chapter, it states that post formal thinking is not an automatic result of brain maturation, nor is it a traditional stage (Berger, p. 516). Does that mean post formal thinking is something everybody on a normal functioning level capable of? Is this a suggested stage that's based on an individual's personal integration of morals experiences and ability to reason?
Source: http://www2.webster.edu/~woolflm/cognotes.html
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