Adaptation and Affect: Toward a Synthesis of Piagetian and Psychoanalytic Psychologies

In this model, we have assumed that Type I processes (assimilation) and Type II processes (accommodation) are theoretically independent, although of course no real system would ever demonstrate one without some of the other. This assumption permits a final elaboration: since there are eight states i...

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Published in:Perspectives in biology and medicine 1975-01, Vol.18 (4), p.464-476
Main Authors: French, Alfred P, Steward, Margaret S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acculturation
Adaptation, Psychological
Affect
Behavior
Feedback
Homeostasis
Humans
Models, Psychological
Piaget, Jean
Psychoanalysis/Psychoanalytic/ Psychoanalyst/ Psychoanalysts
Psychology/Psychological/ Psychologically/ Psychologism
Synthesis
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Summary:In this model, we have assumed that Type I processes (assimilation) and Type II processes (accommodation) are theoretically independent, although of course no real system would ever demonstrate one without some of the other. This assumption permits a final elaboration: since there are eight states in Type I and eight in Type II, and if we assume these to be independent, the model predicts a minimum of 64 theoretically possible states of the organism. (While we have used three separate components of the feedback loop, this is not a maximum, since the feedback loop can be further subdivided. A further division would of course yield a larger number of states.) If these 64 states can be identified, and if rules of transformation can be found determining the transitions between these states, a theoretical basis for a general description of human behavior will have been achieved.
ISSN:0031-5982
1529-8795
1529-8795
DOI:10.1353/pbm.1975.0056