Models and methods in the study of adolescent and adult thought

Preface Structural and Nonstructural Models of Postformal Thought Equilibration Models and the Framework of Postformal Cognition by Francis A. Richards Alfred North Whitehead and Adult Model Development by Allan B. Chinen Modes of Knowledge and the Organization of Development by Gisela Labouvie-Vief The Reflective Judgment Model: Ten Years of Research by Karen Strohm Kitchener and Patricia M. King Maps for Living: Ego-Development Stages from Symbiosis to Conscious Universal Embeddedness by Susanne R. Cook-Greuter Unitary Consciousness and the Highest Development of Mind: The Relation Between Spiritual Development and Cognitive Development by Herb Koplowitz Construct Validity and Theories of Adult Development: Testing for Necessary but Not Sufficient Relationships by Phillip Karl Wood Measurements and Comparisons of Formal and Postformal Cognitive Operations Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence for Differences between Well-Structured and Ill-Structured Problem-Solving Abilities by Mary M. Brabeck and Phillip K. Wood Structural and Developmental Relations Between Formal and Postformal Capacities: Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Adolescent and Adult Cognitive Development by Andreas Demetriou Applying Signal Detection Theory to Measure Subject Sensitivity to Metasystematic, Systematic and Lower-Developmental-Stage Signals by Francis A. Richards and Michael L. Commons. Detecting Metasystematic, Systematic, and Lower-Stage Relations: An Empirical Investigation of Postformal Stages of Development by Francis A. Richards The Relationship Between Piagetian and Kohlbergian Stage: An Examination of the "Necessary but Not Sufficient Relationship" by Michael L. Commons and Tina A. Grotzer Postformal Models in the Moral Domain The Development of Justice Reasoning During Young Adulthood: A Three-Dimensional Model by Mark B. Tappan A Rawlsian View of Kohlberg's Conception of Stage-Six Justice Reasoning by Albert Erdynast Critical Views of Postformal Thought Which Postformal Levels Are Stages? by Lawrence Kohlberg Bibliography Author Index Subject Index