Depressingly, the same is true for Psych Abstracts. A search on "Freud" yeilded 19759 hits while "Piaget" produced only 5713. Of course, having an "influence" on psychology doesn't mean that the influence was a positive one.
-Don. Don Allen Dept. of Psychology Langara College 100 W. 49th Ave. Vancouver, B.C. Canada V5Y 2Z6 Phone: 604-323-5871 ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:30 am Subject: [tips] Re: top ten psych studies? To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> > On 19 Mar 2007 at 16:07, Joan Warmbold wrote: > > > I'm still baffled that Piaget still carries such influence <snip> > > > When younger children are provided problems with only one > segment, they > > reveal amazingly advanced thought processes. Think of the > studies that > > revealed that toddlers show astonishment when they first see two > mickey> mouse dolls which are then hidden from view by a shield. > > Despite Peter Harzem's admirable call for data on the question of > Piaget's influence on scientific psychology I'm afraid we're not > going to > get any, so we're stuck with opinion. And a good part of that > opinion > depends on what we mean by "influence" (as well as on what we mean > by > "scientific"). > > Unlike Joan, I don't think that successful attempts to prove > Piaget wrong > indicate a lack of influence. On the contrary, such studies as the > Mickey > Mouse ones of the cognitive and perceptual abilities of children > are > often classified as "neo-Piagetian" to indicate that they were > inspired > by Piaget. Even if Piaget was wrong (and on the details at least, > he > seems to have been), I count all of this, even including the > recent > interest in Vgotsky as an alternative, as Piaget's legacy. > > My conclusion, BTW, about where Piaget went wrong is that he > tended to > underestimate the abilities of the young child and overestimate > the > abilities of the adolescent. Heck, he even seems to think that > adults are > smarter than they are. How many of us have really mastered formal > operations (speak for yourself, eh?)? > > For what it's worth, Google gives less than half a million hits > for > "Piaget", but 19 million for "Freud". But all that proves is that > Freud > would win on American Idol. Perhaps science citation counts would > be more > revealing. > > Stephen > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. > Department of Psychology > Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2600 College St. > Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8 > Canada > > Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy > TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at > http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > --- > To make changes to your subscription go to: > http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi- > bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english > --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
