PHD

History and Theory of Psychology. General Psychology

Specialty code: 19.00.01 – History of Psychology. General Psychology

MainAcademic ActivitiesKNHistory and Theory of Psychology. General Psychology

Specialty code: 19.00.01 – History of Psychology. General Psychology

Formula:

The specialty formula: “History and theory of psychology. General psychology. Personality Psychology” explores the fundamental mechanisms and patterns of the origin, development and functioning of the human psyche, human consciousness, self-awareness and personality in the processes of activity, cognition and communication, the application of these patterns to solve practical problems of diagnosis, counseling, expertise, prevention of psychological problems and anomalies and support of personal development; carries out historical, theoretical and methodological analysis of psychological theories, concepts and views; development of research and applied methodology and creation of methods of psychological research and practical work.

Research areas:

development and analysis of the fundamentals of general psychological and historical-psychological research; evolution of mental processes in phylogeny; peculiarities of the psyche andbehavior of various animal species; origin and development of consciousness and human activity inanthropogenesis; historical development of mental processes and consciousness; psychophysicalproblem and study of psychophysical patterns; consciousness and cognitive processes; thinking, imagination, solving cognitive tasks; emotional and semantic regulation of thinking; practical thinking in complex systems; intelligence and its diagnostics; sensation and perception; formation of perceptual images; perception of space, time and motion; motivational and semantic regulation of perception; the image of the world: its structure and development; attention and memory; psychological problems of speech communication; psycholinguistics; psychosemantics;psychosemiotics; emotional processes and states; emotional regulation of cognitive processes and activities;diagnosis of emotional states; psychology of feelings; volitional processes; the structure of the will; motivation, its mechanisms, formation andfunctioning; needs, motives, personal values and value orientations, interests, aspirations; classificationand diagnosis of needs and motives; the influence of motivation on activity and cognitive processes;motivation to achieve; consciousness; worldview; reflexive processes; the unconscious; attitudes; psychological protection; anticipation and images of the future; motor processes; operations, their development; skill formation and transfer; activity, its structure, dynamics and regulation; psychology of activity; actions; goals and gel formation; tasks in the structure of activity; abilities; giftedness; talent and genius, their nature; creativity, its psychological mechanisms;artistic, scientific, technical creativity; creative personality; psychogenetics and psychology of individual differences; gender differences in cognitive processes and personality; temperament and character; stability and situational conditioning of behavior; personality traits,their diagnosis; psychometrics; individual style of activity; individual, personality, individuality; life path, its structure and periodization; self-awareness and self-esteem; psychology of relationships; social construction of psychological concepts; psychology of scientific discoveries; influence of socio-cultural and historical context on the development of psychological views; psychological views inthe pre-scientific period of psychology development; history of domestic and foreign psychology; historical psychology; psychology of art; psychological processes of information processing; information technologiesand their impact on human consciousness and personality; man in artificial intelligence systems; theory and methodology of psychological science.

Field of science: Psychological Sciences