DISCIPLINE OF PSYCHOLOGY AS THE BASE OF PSYCHO-PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY

Abstract

Defining the discipline of psychology is still an important issue. Scientific analysis of psychological literature on the problem of determining the subject matter of psychology has shown the ambiguity of the term which is typical for psychological knowledge. Understanding the term “subject matter of psychology” is different depending on the numerous options of explicit and implicit context used by different authors as they adjoin “existing”, “objective reality”, “object”,“subject”, “knowledge”, “method”, and other terms. The article includes the review of the term “the subject of psychology” defined in the works of Russian and foreign scholars. It is stated that the development of views on the subject of psychology has not stopped at the moment. It is concluded that the predecessors have contributed greatly to understanding the subject field of psychology. The morphological analysis of scientific definitions “the object of psychology” hasbeen carried out. The usage frequency of the words defining the scientific content of the subject matter of psychology has been analyzed.