Piaget eta Psikologia

Abstract

This paper begins by briefly reviewing Piaget's exceptional work as a researcher. His concept of development is regarded as a combination of assimilation and accommodation, or as a dynamic balance between intellectual, emotional and social development. Intellectual and emotional development and decentration go hand in hand, so that emotional involvement with other persons is crucially related to their cognitive construction as consistent objects. A brief description of the emotional object is carried out from the perspective that genesis of moral emotion emerges from respect, and that genesis of rules emerges form the idea of mutual respect. Will and personality are described in Piaget's terms respectively as an emotional equivalent to rational acts and a driving principle responsible for the control of energy, and as a life programme which requires a certain level of formal thinking. The exposition concludes by suggesting some parallelisms between Piaget and Freud and briefly reviewing the epistemological perspective on Piaget's work.