Tools to Study Behavior and Activity: Psychologists’ Inventions as a Component of Cultural-Historical Process-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Tools to Study Behavior and Activity: Psychologists’ Inventions as a Component of Cultural-Historical Process

Published:2023-04-26 Issue:1 Volume:19 Page:30-34
ISSN:1816-5435
Container-title:Cultural-Historical Psychology
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Author:

Poddyakov A.N.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. National Research University Higher School of Economics

Abstract

<p>Specially designed cultural tools of psychologists’ and ethologists’ research activity are considered. The tools are objects stimulating a living being (an animal or a human) to unfold its behavior (activity) and, due to it, providing opportunity to study the behavior (activity). They serve as a base for psychological science and are included in systems of relationships between many people. A history of inventions of these objects (from behaviorists’ puzzle boxes, gestalt psychologists’ instruments and experimental objects designed in A.N. Leontiev’s activity approach to the newest objects) is a part of intellectual history of humankind and unfolding of its creative potential towards self-development and self-cognition. Some part of the objects become, in a transformed form, objects of mass culture (e.g. toys). These inventions by psychologists and ethologists are a component of cultural-historical process and modern humankind’s activity structures.</p>

Publisher

Moscow State University of Psychology and Education

Subject

Psychology (miscellaneous),Social Psychology,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Cultural Studies,Applied Psychology

Link

https://psyjournals.ru/journals/chp/archive/2023_n1/Poddiakov.pdf

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