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Peer reviewedTaranto, Maria A. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1989
Compares and synthesizes past decade of research into facets of wisdom, searching for a unified definition. Concludes that factors relating to wisdom (age, experience, intelligence, knowledge, intuition, common sense, and personality) can be unified theoretically if wisdom is viewed as the recognition of and response to human limitation.…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Development, Definitions
Peer reviewedLapsley, Daniel K.; Enright, Robert D. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1983
The rigidity construct is reinterpreted in terms of the cognitive developmental approach. A review reveals both cognitive and developmental themes, with an emphasis on the structural and operational properties of rigidity. Notes weaknesses of previous approaches to rigidity and discusses implications and predictions from the proposed model.…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
