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Journal	Methodology and History of Psychology. 2006. Volume 1. Issue 1
Section	Subject-matter of Psychology in Terms of Universal Theory of Psychology
Pages	105-118
Type	Scientific article
Title	Explication of subject-matter of psychology
Authors	Karitsky, Igor Nikolaevich
Abstract	Existing methods for determining the subject-matter of psychology are examined: declarative and analytical, phenomenalist and essentialist, empirical and theoretical, pragmatic and logical, simple and system, postulative and resultative, didactic and problematic, etc. It is concluded that an ideal definition of the subject-matter of psychology should be the definition characterized as problematic, logical, theoretical, analytical-synthetic, system, essentialist-resultative. The author considers the theoretical-methodological features of a problem of the subject-matter of psychology. The author makes an attempt of deployment of the subject-matter of psychology as psyche through the genesis of one of its general forms – perception – represented in the fundamental aspects of nervous processes coordination of tactile, kinesthetic and visual perception systems.
Keywords	subject-matter of psychology psyche definition type of definitions level structure of subject form of psyche neurophysiological physical noumenon phenomenon perception mechanism of formation and existence of psyche coordination of nervous processes tactile perception kinesthetic perception visual perception
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To cite this article	Karitsky, I.N. (2006). Explication of subject-matter of psychology. Methodology and History of Psychology, 1(1), 105-118.