Alexander Zaporozhets
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Aleksandr Vladimirovich Zaporozhets ( rus, Александр Владимирович Запорожец, p=zəpɐˈroʐɨt͡s; ,
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developmental psychologist Developmental psychology is the science, scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult deve ...
and a student of
Lev Vygotsky Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (, ; ; – June 11, 1934) was a Russian and Soviet psychologist, best known for his work on psychological development in children and creating the framework known as cultural-historical activity theory. After his ear ...
and Aleksei Leontiev. Zaporozhets studied the psychological mechanisms of voluntary movements, perception and action, as well as the development of thought in children. He was one of the major representatives of the Kharkov School of Psychology.


Representative publications

* Zaporozhets, A. V. (1965). The development of perception in the preschool child. In P.H. Mussen (ed.), European Research in Cognitive Development. SRCD 30, no. 2, 82-101 * Zaporozhets, A. & Elkonin, D. (Eds.) (1971). ''The psychology of preschool children'' rans. J. Shybut & S. Simon(pp. 231–242). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press * Special issues of the Journal of Russian & East European Psychology, 2002, 40(3 & 4)


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1905 births 1981 deaths Physicians from Kyiv Academicians of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Soviet educators Soviet psychologists {{psychologist-stub