Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Topics in Education

Titel: Topics in Education

Stichwort: Piaget: Unterschied zu verschiedenen anderen Theorien: Gestaltstheorie

Kurzinhalt: his position explicitly differs from the associationist position, from the theory of the conditioned reflex, from Gestalt theory

Textausschnitt: As a psychological theory his position explicitly differs from the associationist position, which is in terms of images and the similarity between images. It differs, too, from a psychology of needs. Piaget has no doubt of needs, but he considers a need as simply an introspective aspect of the scheme. Again, his theory differs from the theory of the conditioned reflex. The conditioned reflex is simply an accidental elaboration of a scheme, one that lasts just as long as it gives satisfactory results. According to Piaget, conditioned reflexes do not produce permanent differences. Finally, his position differs from Gestalt theory. They are similar insofar as in each case the scheme has a structure, a form. But the structure for Piaget is an operational structure, whereas the structure in Gestalt theory is within the percept. (198; Fs)