PSYchology

Pyotr Yakovlevich Galperin was born on October 2, 1902 in Tambov. (died March 25, 1988, Moscow) — an outstanding Russian psychologist, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1980). Doctor of pedagogical sciences in psychology (1965), professor (1967).

Biography

Graduated from Kharkov Medical Institute (1926). In 1926-1941. worked at the Ukrainian Psychoneurological Academy (Kharkiv), conducted pedagogical work in Kharkov and Donetsk (Stalino), actively participated in the work of the Kharkov group of psychologists (A. N. Leontiev, A. V. Zaporozhets, L. I. Bozhovich, P. I. Zinchenko, V. I. Asnin and others). PhD thesis The psychological difference between human tools and animal aids (Kharkov, 1936). In 1941-1943. — in the Red Army, head of the medical unit of the evacuation hospital (Kaurovsky Rehabilitation Hospital, Sverdlovsk Region). Since 1943 — at Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov; associate professor, professor (since 1966), head. Department of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University (since 1971), Consultant Professor (since 1983).

Scientific contribution

Galpernin is one of the leading Russian scientists in the field of general, developmental and educational psychology, the author of world-famous theories and approaches. He put forward an original understanding of the subject of psychological research and the specifics of human mental development. Developing the worldview traditions of Russian psychology, Petr Yakovlevich reasonably put forward and developed the position on the advantage of purposeful formation as the basic method of psychological research.

Galperin’s theory of the stage-by-stage formation of mental actions won worldwide fame. As theories of the second level, Galperin puts forward and experimentally substantiates the theory of linguistic consciousness, the theory of attention, and a number of other particular psychological theories included in the golden fund of Russian science.

The doctrine of the subject of psychology, the objective necessity of the psyche, the main patterns of its development in philo-anthropo- and ontogenesis, the patterns of formation of ideal actions, images and concepts as elements of mental activity — these are the main components of Galperin’s psychological concept.

Galperin created a psychological worldview that has no analogues in modern human science. His approaches and theories have repeatedly become the subject of special symposiums and round tables of international and national congresses and conferences.

Main publications

  1. Psychological difference between human tools and auxiliary means of animals. PhD thesis, Kharkov, 1937.
  2. About installation in thinking. — Proceedings of the Republican Conference on Pedagogy and Psychology. Kyiv, 1941 (in Ukrainian)
  3. To the question of inner speech. (Reports of the APN of the RSFSR, 1957, No. 4), Idem, Idem
  4. Development of research on the formation of mental actions // Psychological science in the USSR. T. 1. M., 1959;
  5. The main results of research on the problem of «Formation of mental actions and concepts.» M., 1965;
  6. Galperin P. Ya. Psychology of thinking and the doctrine of the phased formation of mental actions. — Studies of thinking in Soviet psychology. M., 1966 // Introduction to psychology. M., 1976.
  7. Experimental study of attention. M., 1974 (co-authored);
  8. Introduction to psychology. M., 1976;
  9. Actual problems of developmental psychology. M., 1978;
  10. Teaching methods and mental development of the child. M., 1985;
  11. Psychology as an objective science. M., 1995
  12. To the problem of attention

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