ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on some signs and hopes for the integration of hitherto disparate aspects of academic psychology. It is the work of Lawrence Kohlberg that deserves first mention: Lawrence Kohlberg has taken the Piagetian approach to the study of moral reasoning, developing and expanding it in a number of ways, and changing certain aspects. Conceptual systems theory is a cognitive theory of personality, like the personal construct theory of George Kelly, under whom both D. E. Hunt and H. M. Schroder studied. The major point of departure of M. Rokeach's book The Open and Closed Mind contains a set of studies confirming Rokeach's conception, using his Dogmatism scale as the main measure of openness-closedness. These have been selected illustrations of some psychological approaches to moral and social thinking. The chapter deals with the concept of information processing skill and some proposals which relate its application at the level of traditional, fine-grained experimentation to explanation at the more complex level of phenomena.
