Adolescent Identity: Rational vs. Experiential Processing, Formal Operations, and Critical Thinking Beliefs.

Klaczynski, Paul A.; Fauth, James M.; Swanger, Amy

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Publication Date: 1998

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Adolescent Identity: Rational vs. Experiential Processing, Formal Operations, and Critical Thinking Beliefs.

Klaczynski, Paul A.; Fauth, James M.; Swanger, Amy

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, v27 n2 p185-207 Apr 1998

The extent to which adolescents rely on rational versus experiential information processing was studied with 49 adolescents administered multiple measures of formal operations, two critical thinking questionnaires, a measure of rational processing, and a measure of ego identity status. Implications for studies of development are discussed in terms of human information processing. (SLD)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Experience, Formal Operations

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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