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ADULTS’ THINKING: THE RELATIONSHIP OF FORMAL-LOGICAL AND DIALECTICAL STRUCTURES

Psychology , UDC: 740 DOI: 10.25688/2076-9121.2021.58.4.08

Authors

  • Shiyan Olga Alexandrovna Associate Professor, PhD in Pedagogy
  • Vorobieva Irina I. PhD in Psychology, PhD in Psychology
  • Kopasovskaya Sofya Konstantinovna
  • Shiyan Igor B. Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Psychology
  • Zadadaev Sergey A. associate professor, Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics

Annotation

The work examines the connections between formal-logical and dialectical structures. The article presents the materials of an empirical study obtained on a sample of 161 respondents aged 18 to 68 years. The study used techniques aimed at diagnosing dialectical thinking, formal logical thinking and the ability to establish opposites in different contexts: “What can be at the same time?”, “Inclusion of classes”, “Inference”, “What can be the other way around?”, “Rods “,”Questioning “. The evidence of the discriminative nature of the diagnostic techniques is presented. The study found no significant correlations between formal-logical and dialectical thinking. The results make it possible to question the thesis that dialectical thinking is postformal, and to suggest that it represents an independent line of cognitive development in adults. At the same time, there is evidence that the ability to operate with opposites is a universal characteristic of logical thinking, important both for formal operations and for dialectical thinking.
Tags:
dialectical thinking , formal-logical thinking , opposites , thinking , thinking of adults

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Shiyan, O. A., Vorobieva, I. I., Kopasovskaya, S. K., Shiyan, I. B. & Zadadaev, S. A. (2021). ADULTS’ THINKING: THE RELATIONSHIP OF FORMAL-LOGICAL AND DIALECTICAL STRUCTURES Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", № 4 (58), . https://doi.org/10.25688/2076-9121.2021.58.4.08
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