Agency is experienced as within the individual with a fully internalized and coherent value structure . Back to Top Perry also presents a more thorough view of the process of intellectual development which includes the transition from one stage to another. Below is an overview of this process. This position is pure, closed structure . Uncertainty is not adequately perceived.
Truth is out there and accepted.
Authorities know, and if we work hard, read every word, and learn Right Answers, all will be well. Some of our own authorities disagree with each other or don't seem to know, and some give us problems instead of answers . Here there is the recognition of limited diversity . True authorities must be right, the others are frauds. We remain right.