1. Introduction 2. The emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning 3. The zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research 4. The instruments of expansion 5. Toward an expansive methodology 6. Epilogue.

Learning by expanding: An activity-theoretical approach to developmental research

Part I. Experimental Studies: 2. Experiment in psychology 3. Experiments on perceiving III Experiments on imaging 4-8. Experiments on remembering: (a) The method of description (b) The method of repeated reproduction (c) The method of picture writing (d) The method of serial reproduction (e) The method of serial reproduction picture material 9. Perceiving, recognizing, remembering 10. A theory of remembering 11. Images and their functions 12. Meaning Part II. Remembering as a Study in Social Psychology: 13. Social psychology 14. Social psychology and the matter of recall 15. Social psychology and the manner of recall 16. Conventionalism 17. The notion of a collective unconscious 18. The basis of social recall 19. A summary and some conclusions.

Remembering. A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology, Cambridge (University Press) 1964.

From the Publisher:
The old opposition of matter versus mind stubbornly persists in the way we study mind and brain. In treating cognition as problem solving, Andy Clark suggests, we may often abstract too far from the very body and world in which our brains evolved to guide us. Whereas the mental has been treated as a realm that is distinct from the body and the world, Clark forcefully attests that a key to understanding brains is to see them as controllers of embodied activity. From this paradigm shift he advances the construction of a cognitive science of the embodied mind.

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Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again

The measurement of meaning

How we Think

Valsiner, J., Marsico, G., Chaudhary, N., Sato, T. & Dazzani, V., (Eds) (2016). Psychology as a Science of Human Being: The Yokohama Manifesto, Annals of Theoretical Psychology, 13, Geneve, Switzerland: Springer.

Ambivalence plays an important role in human psychological functioning, yet few theories incorporate ambivalence as a focal topic. In this light, Else Frenkel-Brunswik was pioneer, for in her short lifetime she inspired the world of personality psychology by centring her study on ambivalence. The fruits of understanding surface level thought and behaviour through a place deeper inside are clear in her work; Frenkel-Brunswik provides a window into the presence of opposites within the self as well as the corresponding potential individuals have to avoid them. Broadly speaking, bringing ambivalence back as core topic for psychology allows models from a diverse array of perspectives to more fully account for the complexity of human life.

Ambivalence in focus: Remembering the life and work of Else Frenkel-Brunswik

In this chapter I undertake an intellectual journey to the realm of generalization in irreversible time. The coverage leads us to a rather paradoxical conclusion—in order to create any knowledge, the knowledge maker has to act on the basis of unique, transient, phenomena that occur in the flow of irreversible time. To accomplish the making of general knowledge the mundane flow of irreversible time needs to be transcended. This is only possible through semiotic mediation—abstracting from experience through signs—arriving at generalized knowledge that is freed from the confines of time. The process by which this is achieved is abduction—re-constructing explanations in retrospect, across the border of the present, into the vanished past. Furthermore—the generalized knowledge leads to very concrete anticipatory actions in practice—thus testing its adequacy again at the level of unique events. We live on and through personally unique life courses which are general for all human lives in their basic organization.

Generalization in Science: Abstracting from Unique Events

Introduction: Culture in psychology: A renewed encounter of inquisitive minds

All human conduct is purposive and dynamically regulated. In psychology the notion of purpose has been rejected as a notion that might bring religious moments into psychology. In biology the acceptance of purposefulness becomes inevitable as the new genetic science concentrates on the pre-adaptation of the genome to the expected possible future environments. William McDougall’s hormic psychology of the beginning decades of the 20th century is worth re-visiting in search of new models of purposiveness.

Jaan Valsiner

Papers

Valsiner, J., Marsico, G., Chaudhary, N., Sato, T. & Dazzani, V., (Eds) (2016). Psychology as a Science of Human Being: The Yokohama Manifesto, Annals of Theoretical Psychology, 13, Geneve, Switzerland: Springer.

Ambivalence in focus: Remembering the life and work of Else Frenkel-Brunswik

Generalization in Science: Abstracting from Unique Events

Introduction: Culture in psychology: A renewed encounter of inquisitive minds

The Purpose of Purpose