I call them perspectives or views. I feel Piaget's ideas however, were clearly (and in some cases have been) falsifiable. Most of the views in a personality text are not strong theories, but then Psych is not known for strong theories. In most journals, theoretical, speculative notions are being examined, not systematically developed theoretical frameworks. I think part of the problem is that texts tout theories as these frameworks of postulates, but most work in psych involves some smaller theoretical ideas explaining often isolated and insulated principles---self-reference effect, misinformation effect, state-dependent learning. Yes, we know they can be reasonably integrated with a larger body of findings, but there is no theory doing that. ..and perhaps, such unifying theories in Psych are unlikely. Gary
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