Brad Jesness has added an update
Mar 6,2018
This neo-Piagetian Theory (Ethogram Theory) completes (fills the gap in) Piaget's Theory (and that of others)
Though many may not know about it: Piaget described TWO sorts of equilibration: one, a good balance between assimilation and accommodation AND, THE OTHER, a balance between remaining with the behavior pattern sets of a given Period (stage) OR progressing to the next stage. This second sort of equilibration was never well-explained in any way by Piaget, and he knew it. He only said it depended on "biological maturation". (Because this was a continuing question for Piaget, there is no wonder why the last book he wrote in his life was on Equilibration.) ETHOGRAM THEORY: This neo-Piagetian Theory (described in this Project) completes (fills the gap in) Piaget's Theory: it describes generally, and then in some detail, the OBSERVABLE biological/behavioral adaptation processes that are the basis of the stages. ALL HYPOTHESES REQUIRE JUST DIRECT OBSERVATION (of proximate causes) AND ARE COMPLETELY TESTABLE (and thus are verifiable). [ Modern eye-tracking technology and perhaps computer-assisted analysis likely are needed. ] This is the ONLY theory that NOT ONLY fills this major gap in ALL Piagetian and ALL neo-Piagetian theories. But also, for the first time, in any true and meaningful way, brings "innate factors" and learning actually TOGETHER SIMULTANEOUSLY -- that which is needed to end the long-standing dualism. There is no other theory like this. This is my offering to you. It takes only about 450 pages of explication for FULL JUSTIFICATION, to understand how the details this theory looks for are important. READ THAT (it's ALL here on researchgate). IN ADDITION: This theory also solves 3 out of 5 (or so) things-in-theory that "hold up" General Artificial Intelligence; PLUS, it is a concrete enough outline of that which is involved in cognitive development so that it is USEFUL, IN A FULLY PRACTICAL SENSE, for General AI (see my other Project relevant to this). Another Important ADDITION: I must add that this long paper points out the unproven, likely incorrect "operating" 'assumptions' (basic 'foundational' beliefs behind, and for, VIRTUALLY ALL THINKING AND JUSTIFICATIONS) prevalent throughout psychology. _AND_ it states and describes the alternative (more likely, biologically compatible) assumptions one should use. Many of the ramifications of the new assumptions for much better science (a science of psychology) are spelled out (in the 323-page Collected Essays -- written recently to explicate all that was just indicated). [ ** AND ** There is now a doubly long "collection", comprised of this "Collected Essays" and an equal number of newer essays -- all available via recent Updates to the Human Ethogram ... (Ethogram Theory) Project (see esp. the second-to-last Update (aka Log Entry). ] With this new perspective and the new research it generates (through its testable hypotheses) , psychology (like classical ethology) becomes "a biology of behavior" ; <-- This in spite of the fact that THIS PSYCHOLOGY is just psychology AS CLASSICALLY defined, just behaviors (behavior patterns) and the associated environmental features to which these are a response, AND that is basically ALL -- though SPECIFIC, verifiable, directly-observable innate guidance is thought to exist for (in/amongst) behaviors initiating MAJOR QUALITATIVE SHIFTS AS some OVERT ASPECTS of these major behavior patterns (in particular, behavior patterns intimately related to, and key to the progress of, cognition, memory, and cognitive processes). [ These aspects (also) are explicated in the recently-written collection of essays -- the Collected Essays also in the reference list for the Project: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Human-Ethology-and-Development-Ethogram-Theory . ] A Human Ethogram: Its Scientific Acceptability and Importanc... AND: "Essentially, all Recent Essays on Ethogram Theory"
Brad Jesness has added an update
Mar 3,2018
Posts I made since the last one in the Collected Essays
Posts I made since the last one in the Collected Essays FOR THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO READ ALMOST ALL MY POSTS FROM THE LAST several MONTHS: https://mynichecomp.com/lastPosts.pdf (about 50 more pages) [ --> Do make sure you see the 1 Comment and 2 Replies on the web page with the Collected Essays ( "Essentially, all Recent Essays on Ethogram Theory" ) <-- ]