ON PSYCHOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS (NEW P SYCHOLOGICAL TEXT-BOOKS ANALYSIS)

Contemporary Russian psychological text-books (A.V. Petrovsky's; R.S. Nemov's; V.I. Slobodchikov's and E.I. Isaev's) are analysed and underl ying systems of psychological knowledge compared. The first text-book is based on indistinct activity approach; the second one contains more complete concrete-scientific data but employs positivistic approach, making construction of psychological system difficult; the third is ba sed on humanistic psychology approach, which does not allow complete p sychological issues review. These text-books are compared to American ones.