Thesaurus of Cultural-Historical Psychology
On one hand this informational and reference system serves a function of synthesis by helping the reader to grasp the whole terminological network of Vygotsky, and on the other – helps deepen the understanding of each specific term of his theory.
- word – definition (term);
- translation of the word into English;
- frequency factor – an indication of how many times the term was used in Vygotsky’s texts (including word-forms), in which works of which period the term was used;
- quote database – an exhaustive list of quotes containing the term as a key word, with an indication of the source of the quote (on the basis of bibliographical list of writings by T.M. Lifanova, published in collected works edition, vol.6, 1982);
- generalizing article (the actual thesaurus entry for the term);
- bibliographical list – a list of literature presenting most fully and explicitly the development of Vygotsky’s ideas related to the term, including writings in Russian and English.
After analyzing the subject index included in the edition of L.S. Vygotsky’s collected works (1982-1984, “Pedagogyca” publishing house, Moscow) we realized that some of Vygotsky’s original terms were not included in the index. Therefore we conducted an additional analysis of psychological dictionaries and Vigotsky’s texts, and expanded the Word List. All your comments and suggestions regarding the Word List are very important to us.
Additional search fields will allow for obtaining information on where L.S. Vygotsky worked in the time when he performed a certain research, data on periodicals which published the main results of research by Vygotsky or his colleagues, information on scientific events where those results were presented and discussed.
We also created a tentative list of resources for additional search fields of the system – including Vygotsky’s places of work, periodicals which published his contributions, etc.
“The thesaurus of Cultural-Historical Psychology”
| № | Section | Subsection |
| 1 | Methodology of psychology. Methodological principles and methodical/procedural means of cultural-historical psychology |
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| 2 | General scientific and philosophical terms, terms related to interdisciplinary and psychological scope of cultural-historical psychology | General scientific and philosophical terms |
| History of psychology | ||
| 3 | Basic terms of L.S. Vygotsky’s cultural-historical concept |
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| 4
| General psychology
| Sensation and perception |
| Memory | ||
| Attention | ||
| Thinking and speech | ||
| Emotions and needs. The affect/intellect problem (volition) | ||
| Personality | ||
| Imagination | ||
| Action, movement, motorics | ||
| 5
| Psychology of childhood (developmental psychology)
| General methodological questions of children’s development periodization |
| Stages of children’s development | ||
| Neonatal crisis | ||
| Infancy | ||
| The First year crisis | ||
| Early childhood | ||
| The crisis of Age Three | ||
| Preschool age | ||
| The crisis of Age Seven | ||
| School age | ||
| The crisis of Age Thirteen | ||
| Puberty | ||
| The crisis of Age Seventee | ||
| 6 | Defectology
| General methodological questions |
| Psychological features of a blind child | ||
| Psychological features of a deaf child | ||
| Psychological features of a mentally handicapped child | ||
| 7 | Educational psychology
| The problem of education and development |
| Zone of proximal development | ||
| Psychological features of a gifted child | ||
| Behavioral and educational difficulties | ||
| 8 | Psychology of art |
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| 9 | Scientific basis of psychology |
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