6/28/2004
desjardins/honig COGNITION
79
Intellectual Skills
•Mature adults can use experience to imagine, anticipate, plan and hope.
•Person develops an inner private world that give them resources for happiness and potential for anxiety.
•Mature adult is interested in other persons and warm, enduring relationships
•Adaptable, independent, self-driven, conscientious, enthusiastic and purposeful.
•Struggle with morality, ethics, philosophy, religion and politics.