This replication showed that the scheme was reproducible at least for the men at Harvard University. There is a strong learning connotation in Perry's model since students cannot understand or answer questions which are in a developmental sense too far above them. These positions and the movement from postition to postition represent the major contribution of Perry's model. The person sees the world dualistically, right versus wrong. THere are no altrenatives.
Authorities know all the answers.
The teacher as an authority is supposed to teach the correct answers to the students. Failure to do so means that the teacher is a bad teacher. Hard work and obedience will be rewadrded. Authority is so all-knowing that all deviations from authority are lumped together with error and evil. Confrontations with person's basic dualistic postition both in class and in residence halls cause disequilibration , which leads to position 2.