In late adolescence and emerging adulthood, people are able to use both emotion and logic when grappling with personal and social problems; such thinking demonstrates thought.

postformal              

Explanation:

Postformal thought: In psychology, the term "postformal thought" is referred to as a phenomenon in which an individual's thought are considered as logical, flexible, and willing to different intellectual and moral complexities and therefore it is tagged as dialectical as compared to the former stages in his or her development.

A postformal thinker decisions are based on practical and realistic aspects of something rather than an idealistic perspective.

In the question above, the given statement represents the "postformal thought".

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