Very helpful Mike. Thx for these links. Checking into them now. Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. [email protected] http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt
On Jun 26, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Mike Palij wrote: > Although the presentation below might represent a coherent account > of how Piaget's theory of schemas operate, it might mislead people > because schema theory has come a long way since Piaget. Indeed, > for people working in AI, they date the origins of schema to Kant > and use Frederic Bartlett's use of schema as their starting point. > Minsky provides a re-interpretation for use in AI programming, > Rumelhart & Norman reinterpreted it for contemporary cognitive > psychology. There is an entry on "Schema (psychology)" on > Wikipedia but in my opinion it is inadequate (a Google search > turns up many sources for the development of schema in the > past few decades). To see how Wikipedia treats this topic, see: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_%28psychology%29 > > Another view of the development of schema theory is provided > by Gureckis and Goldstone in their entry on "Schema" in "The > Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences"; See: > http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/rgoldsto/pdfs/schemaforlanguage.pdf > Goldstone makes a number of papers from his research group available > on his website; see: > http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/papers.html > He also provides access to 10 "classic" articles from the journal "Cognitive > Science"; see: > http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/rgoldsto/cogsci/classics.html > > People in AI might emphasize different aspects of the development of > schema theory while people in education might trace the development > through the work of R.C. Anderson. Even the Gestalists have been > implicated in the development of the concept of schemas. > > So, in summary, maybe an accurate portrayal of Piaget's concepts but > not of current schema theory. YMMV. > > -Mike Palij > New York University > [email protected] > > > --------- Original Message -------------------- > On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:47:54 -0700, Michael Britt wrote: > As many of you probably heard, same-sex marriages are now legal here in New > York. I've heard a few things lately that made me wonder whether the pro and > con attitudes toward this issue didn't have something to do with Piaget's > concept of schema, assimilation and accommodation. Feel free to let me know > if > you think I've got this right or if I'm off-base here. > > My guess is that if your scheme for the concept of "marriage" is primarily > the > idea that marriage is a union between a woman and a man, then you could > easily > assimilate a few variations on this, such as a) a union between an older man > and a younger woman (and vice versa), and b) a union between a man of one > color > to that of a woman of another (again, and vice versa). You could easily > assimilate these observations into your existing schema of "marriage". > > However, a union between and man and a man or a woman and a woman would > probably require this person to accommodate - restructure their definition of > "marriage". I'm guessing that for many people who have been brought up to > have > a tight definition of marriage (man and woman), the accommodation of this > definition to include two people of the same sex is difficult. > > On the other hand, if your schema for "marriage" is primarily the idea that > marriage is a union between two people who love each other, then a gay > marriage > is more a case of assimilation than accommodation. Am I right here? > > On a not unrelated note, I was recently watching the first "Pirates of the > Caribbean" movie and I saw another example of assimilation vs. accommodation > (got Piaget on the brain I guess). Early in this movie Jack Sparrow said to > Will that Will's father was both "a pirate and a good man". Will had trouble > accepting this because, from Piaget's perspective, the two schema, "pirate" > and > "good man" are very different and usually don't evoke each other. Will had > trouble accommodating "pirate" to include "good man". > > Just checking to make sure this isn't too far fetched of an application of > the > concepts of schema, accommodation and assimilation. Feedback welcome. > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958f69&n=T&l=tips&o=11158 > or send a blank email to > leave-11158-13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=11160 or send a blank email to leave-11160-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
