Alexei Nikolaevich Leont'ev

(1903 - 1979) - Soviet psychologist, author of one of the options activity approach in psychology. In the late 20's. Working with HORSES. Vygotsky and using the ideas of cultural-historical concept, researched the processes of memory. In the early 30-ies. became head of the Kharkiv activity-school and proceeded to the theoretical and experimental design problems of. Conducted research on a wide range of psychological problems: the emergence and development of the mind in the phylogeny, . emergence of consciousness in anthropology, . Mental development in ontogeny, . structure of activity and consciousness, . motivational-semantic scope of personality, . methodology and the history of psychology.,