THE EVOLUTION OF BIOLOGICAL DOMAIN IN MOSCOW PSYCHOLOGICAL SCHOOL (review: based on the Moscow State University Bulletin data)
This study is devoted to the development of the biological domain in the Moscow Psychological School. It is well known that the authors of this school used the social and cultural domains more frequently than the biological one. The majority of Moscow Psychology School authors (S. L. Rubinstein, A. N. Leontyev, L. S. Vygotsky) paid less attention on the biological aspect of human mind. But at the same time L. S. Vygotsky and D. B. Elkonin created the mental development theory based on natural development and ageing of human organism; also there is the theory of mind evolution created by A. N. Leontyev and K. E. Fabry and based of biological evolution theory. A. R. Luria studied brain functional asymmetry, the concept of system localisation of higher mental functions was the result of this study. B. M. Teplov, V. D. Nebylitsyn and V. M. Rusalov investigated nervous system features and temperament - the biological basics of personality. The method of semantic analysis of publications in the Moscow State University Bulletin since 1977 to 2019 was used to investigate the development of the biological domain in the Moscow Psychological School. The hypothesis of the research was that the Moscow Psychological School is mainly focused on the biological aspect of the biological domain. The method used in this study is the author's “inciampata” model that consists in classification of scientific terms found in the articles in three groups according to three aspects of studied domain: biological, physical and mathematical ones; Pearson's correlation coefficient, P. Terentyev's method and L.Vykhandu's method were used for statistical data processing. The results of the study show that the authors of the Moscow Psychological School used the elements of sciences in particular studies, and the main aspect of biological domain is the physical one, not biological one. A probable reason is that the authors of the Moscow Psychological School were focused on physics as on an ideal science due to integration of biological and social-cultural domains in psychology that started in history of science.