Bridging Paradigms

JAN D. SINNOTT is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for the Study of Adult Development at Towson State University. / She is a well-known researcher on lifespan cognitive development and publishes frequently on aging, sex roles, and adult development. She edited Everyday Problem Solving (Praeger, 1989) and co-edited Adult Development, Volumes 1 and 2 (Praeger, 1989 and 1990). She is co-editor of an upcoming book entitled Everyday Memory.JOHN C. CAVANAUGH is Professor of Psychology at Bowling Green State University and Director of the Institute for Psychological Research and Application. He is also Director for Behavioral Research at the Northwest Ohio Dementia and Memory Center at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo. His research interests include: cognitive aging in everyday life, self-evaluations of cognition and stress and coping processes in caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients. He authored Adult Development and Aging.

• On Building Bridges, Developing Positively, and Postformal Thinking Coming of Age: Confessions of a Nonconformist by John C. Cavanaugh Keeping One's Balance in a Moving System: The Effects of the Multiple Personality Disordered Patient on the Cognitive Development of the Therapist by Judith Armstrong Age-Related Changes in Visual Processing May Result in Continuing Cognitive Development by Julie R. Brannan and Cameron J. Camp Normal Aging and Disease as Contributors to the Study of Cognitive Processing in Aging by Jeffrey W. Elias, Merrill F. Elias, and P. K. Elias Reconceptualizing the Nature of Dialectical Postformal Operational Thinking: The Effects of Affectively Mediated Social Experiences by Ronald R. Irwin Bridging Paradigms: The Role of a Change Agent in an International Technical Transfer Project by Lynn Johnson Relativistic Operations: A Framework for Conceptualizing Teachers' Everyday Problem Solving by Diane M. Lee Conflict and Cooperation in Adulthood: A Role for Both? by John A. Meacham The Importance of Interpersonal Relations for Formal Operations Development by John A. Meacham Age Differences versus Age Deficits in Laboratory Tasks: The Role of Research in Everyday Cognition by James M. Puckett, Hayne W. Reese, Stanley H. Cohen, and Leslee K. Pollina Investigating the Relationship between Cognition and Social Thinking in Adulthood: Stereotyping and Attributional Processes by Jane L. Rankin and Judith L. Allen Perceived Problem Relevancy and Its Relationship to Reasoning on Everyday Problems by Richard A. Sebby and Dennis R. Papini Limits to Problem Solving: Emotion, Intention, Goal Clarity, Health, and Other Factors in Postformal Thought by Jan D. Sinnott What Do We Do to Help John? A Case Study of Postformal Problem Solving in a Family Making Decisions about an Acutely Psychotic Member by Jan D. Sinnott The Influences of Formal versus Informal Education on Planning Skills: A Cultural Perspective by Fabienne Tanon Expert Systems in Nature: Spoken Language Processing and Adult Aging by Arthur Wingfield and Elizabeth A. L. Stine Author Index Subject Index