Stephen Black wrote: "Gerald Peterson pointed out that Freud and Pavlov would not have considered themselves psychologists. To be complete, we'd have to add Piaget to that list--his Ph.D. was in biology. But it doesn't matter what the individual in question thought he was. We're stuck with the association of Freud with psychology, and the other two, physiologist and biologist, are famous for their contributions to our field. So we've appropriated them, whether they like it or not."
======= Although it is true that Piaget's PhD was in biology (for work on nematodes or somesuch), unlike Ivan Pavlov, he had no problem with the work that made him famous being characterized as psychology. He was a heavily influenced by the psychiatrist/psychologist Pierre Janet, with whom he worked closely in his early years, and his theory of child development was in closely associated with that of the earlier psychologist James Mark Baldwin. The connection between his biological work and psychological work was the model evolutionary theory provided for both. In short, we can claim Piaget as one of "us" in good conscience. Pavlov, influential as he was, was developing a speculative theory of the neurological reflex which was immediately dumped by the American behaviorists who "adopted" him in favor of a functionalist view of the *behavioral* "reflex". Regards, Chris Green --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
