1. Kathleen Stassen Berger The Developing Person Through the Life Span Eighth Edition Part VI Emerging Adulthood: Cognitive Development Chapter Eighteen Postformal Thought Morals and Religion Cognitive Growth and Higher Education

2. Postformal Thought The Practical and the Personal: A Fifth Stage? –Time Management –Really a Stage? Combining Subjective and Objective Thought

3. Postformal Thought Cognitive Flexibility –Working Together –Alternate Solutions Countering Stereotypes –Stereotypes About Other People –Stereotype Threat

4. Postformal Thought Dialectical Thought –A “Broken” Marriage –Culture and Dialectics

5. Morals and Religion Which Era? What Place? Dilemmas for Emerging Adults –Gender Differences –Measuring Moral Growth Stages of Faith THINKING CRITICALLY: Faith and Tolerance

6. Cognitive Growth and Higher Education The Effects of College A CASE TO STUDY: College Advancing Thought Changes in the College Context –Changes in the Students –Changes in the Institutions

7. Cognitive Growth and Higher Education Evaluating the Changes –Diversity and Enrollment –Graduates and Dropouts