Acta Psychologica Sinica


Volume 25 No 3, pp. 291-297 (1993)

PERSPECTIVE OF EMOTION-DESCRIPTION ON SHIFTS OF COGNITIVE STRUCTURE FROM ADOLESCENCE TO ADULTHOOD

SHEN Jiliang

Abstract

Based on cognitive development coding system, descriptions of anger, fear, sadness and happiness of 90 subjects aged 13 to 55 were assessed. The results showed that: With rigidity, the thought of the adolescent had the characteristics of form, objectiveness and abstractness, while the thought of the adults had the characteristics of openness, subjectiveness, more concrete and figurative.
Keywords: cognitive development; emotion; coding system; cognitive structure

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