V P Zinchenko

Biographic Data

ID8882601
NAMEV P Zinchenko
GIVEN NAMESV P
FAMILY NAMEZinchenko
SIGNATUREZINCHENKO V P
AFFILIATIONSa Union of Artists, USSR, Budapest
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
H-INDEX0

  • The Problem of the "Formative" Elements of Consciousness in the Activity Theory of the Mind

    V P Zinchenko, В П ЗинченкоARTICLESoviet Psychology1990

    The problem of the structure and psychological mechanisms of consciousness has a rich history, to which M. M. Bakhtin, G. G. Shpet, L. S. Vygotsky, and, later, A. N. Leont'ev and S. L. Rubinshtein all made significant contributions. It is our purpose in the present article to discuss only one aspect of this problem: the structure of individual consciousness. Pursuing the line of research delineated by Vygotsky, Leont'ev (1977) posed some cardinal…

  • Vygotsky's Contribution to the Development of Psychology

    V D Davydov, V P Zinchenko et al.ARTICLESoviet Psychology1989

    Lev Semenovich Vygotsky is one of the greatest psychologists of the first half of the 20th century. He entered science on the wave of its postrevolutionary transformations and contributed much to the creation of a Marxist psychology. Fifty years have passed since his death, but he remains one of the leaders in theory in the great school of Soviet psychologists, and has had considerable influence on all of world psychology

  • Psychology— Perestroika

    V P Zinchenko, В П ЗінченкоARTICLESoviet Psychology1989

    We have cursed "psychology" because we were living in a "characterless" era ... That era has passed, and so we again have need of the entire soul, the whole of what is life, the whole man ... Back to the soul, not just to man, but to the "whole man"—with a spirit, with body and soul, with all that is part of life—thrice over

  • Ergonomics and Informatics

    V P Zinchenko, В П ЗинченкоARTICLESoviet Psychology1989

    Is it valid to connect the terms informatics and ergonomics? The connecting link between them is the human factor. This concept as it is now understood has outgrown its initial meaning, in which it was limited to the interpretation given it in engineering psychology, ergonomics, and systems technology. We now speak of the human factor as the deciding factor in any changes, i.e., we think of its role not only in production but also in social organ…

  • From the Genesis of Sensations to an Image of the World

    V P Zinchenko, В П ЗинченкоARTICLESoviet Psychology1985

    A. N. Leont'ev began his first studies of perceptual processes in the mid-'30s, when he was already a mature scientist. Throughout the rest of his scientific career he returned again and again to experimental study of vision, hearing, and touch and to the theoretical and methodological problems of studying sensibility and perception. Despite the fact that parallel with these studies (and in intervals between them) Leont'ev was also working in man…

  • The Problem of Activity in the Works of A. N. Leont'ev

    V V Davydov, В В Давыдов et al.ARTICLESoviet Psychology1983

    The category of activity is universally accepted in Soviet psychology. Further development of the activity approach requires our awareness of the path traversed, an analysis of the viewpoints that have emerged concerning the function of the category of activity in the system of psychological science, and a delimitation of problems for the research program of Soviet psychologists

  • The Principle of Development in Psychology

    V V Davydov, В В Давыдов et al.ARTICLESoviet Psychology1981

    Soviet psychology has developed on the basis of Marxist-Leninist philosophy, in particular, on the theory of the role of practical activity with objects in the intellectual development of the individual and on the theory of reflection. On these foundations, the general principles for the study of animal mind and of human consciousness have been developed in psychology that together constitute the activity approach. Psychology has accumulated a va…

  • Problems of Visual Culture in the Light of Modern Investigations of Visual Perception and Visual Thinking

    V P Zinchenko, В П ЗинченкоARTICLESoviet Psychology1974

    The problem of visual and esthetic training has many facets, among which the psychological are obviously not the least important. The results of long years of studying the psychology of the child (2) lead to the conclusion that: Human consciousness and the mechanisms of conscious control of human actions represe it a hierarchical system, like a building constructed of many superimposed psychophysiological levels, of many floors rising above one a…

  • Productive Perception

    V P Zinchenko, В П ЗинченкоARTICLESoviet Psychology1974

    Many generations of psychologists have been concerned with the problem of how we see things as they are in reality. The science of vision has accumulated extensive material on this subject; and many more or less correct hypotheses have been proposed, formulated in the various conceptual terms of philosophy, art, psychology, physiology, biophysics, mathematics, and technology. Investigation into the working of the visual system has not developed e…

  • Ergonomics — its History, Subject, and Methodology

    V P Zinchenko, В П Зинченко et al.ARTICLESoviet Psychology1974

    At the First International Conference on Questions of Ergonomics, held in 1972, it was noted that the concept of ergonomics was first proposed by the outstanding Polish naturalist Wojtech Jastrzebowski, who in 1857 published his Cherti ergonomiki [Characteristics of ergonomics (that is, the science of work)] in the weekly Priroda i promishlennosti [Nature and industry]

  • Parapsychology

    V P Zinchenko, В П Зинченко et al.ARTICLESoviet Psychology1974

    One seeks in vain an entry on "parapsychology" in Soviet dictionaries and encyclopedias. It appears, as far as could be established, for the first time in the Filosofskaya entsiklopediya [Philosophic encyclopedia], edited by F. V. Konstantinov and issued by the publishing house Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya (1967, Vol. 4, pp. 212-213). The entry "Parapsikhologiya" was contributed by S. Gellershtein (Moscow). It is especially valuable because it cites…

  • Study of the Process of Sequential information processing

    V P Zinchenko, В П Зинченко et al.ARTICLESoviet Psychology1974

    An earlier study (3) advanced the hypothesis that there is a mechanism for scanning successively fixed traces. Briefly, this hypothesis is as follows. Eye movements alternating with visual fixations are used to familiarize oneself with problem situations and to retrieve information relevant to those problems. The duration of the fixations depends on the perceptual complexity of the problem and generally ranges between 150 and 600 msec. Longer fix…

  • Scanning Successively Fixed Traces in Short-Term Memory

    G G Vuchetich, V P Zinchenko et al.ARTICLESoviet Psychology1974

    Familiarization with a situation and the search for relevant information is accomplished by eye movements that alternate with visual fixations. The duration of the fixations depends on the complexity of the perceptual problem and generally ranges between 150 and 600 msec. Longer fixations rarely occur

  • The Study of Visual Thinking

    V P Zinchenko, В П Зинченко et al.ARTICLESoviet Psychology1973

    Man perceives the world not only as it really is but also as it might be. In other words, perception is productive as well as reproductive, and the visual system contains mechanisms that generate new images. A study of these mechanisms and the principles of image generation is the subject of a special field in psychology which has recently been given the name "visual thinking" (1)