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Who am I? A fleshy compound or a spiritual being? It is not that easy to delineate myself when I have already perplexed about the purpose of my being in this universe and what really I am required to fulfill? Taking my own personality in the light of psychological theories and existing assumptions, the theories of Piaget and to some extent of Freud are examples of such organismically oriented ideas that may somehow help in portraying myself in black and white. In contrast, the mechanistic position stresses quantitative change and the active contribution of processes lying outside the primary control of my organism (e.g., in the external stimulus environment) as the major source of development. The behavioral, functional analysis theories of Bijou (1976) and of Bijou and Baer (1961) are major examples of such mechanistically oriented ideas which can somehow assist my in describing myself honestly.
Personally speaking, again, on the basis of some well-known philosophical ideas, discussions occurred concerning the "family of theories" associated with each model. For instance, there are at least two types of organismically oriented theories, those of Freud and those of Piaget. Although there are differences among family members (Freud emphasizes emotional development, and Piaget emphasizes cognitive development), there is greater similarity among the theories within a family (e.g., the common stress on the qualitative, stage-like nature of development) than there is between theories associated with different families (e.g., mechanistically oriented theories would deny the importance, indeed the reality, of qualitatively different stages). (Anderson, N., & Cuneo, D 1978) Due to the philosophically-based differences between families of theories derived from the organismic and the mechanistic models, the period since the early 1970s has involved several discussions about the different stances regarding an array of key conceptual issues of development; for example, the nature and nurture bases of development, the quality................
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