ZINCHENKO Petr Ivanovich

(1903-1969) - Soviet psychologist, author of works on the psychology of memory, interpreted them from the position of the activity approach ( 'On forgetting and playing school knowledge', 1939). On this basis, examined the problem of involuntary memory, . demonstrating the dependence of its efficiency from the place of stored objects in the structure of (their connection with the motives, . goals, . way activities), . as well as ways to remember the semantic processing of the material,
. Speaking against the absolute separation of involuntary and voluntary memory, substantiated the commonality of their functional mechanisms ( 'Involuntary remembering', 1961).