Theory of Causality and Modern Mainstream Psychology

Cultural-historical research methodology for studying of child’s development

“…In the beginning of XXI Century the dissatisfaction with pure statistical and empirical quantitative methods in psychological research becomes clear and obvious and cannot be neglected or underestimated anymore (Gelo et al, 2008;Mey, 2010;Molenaar, 2004). Simultaneously, as we see rising pleas for rethinking methodological issues, we find various attempts at the re-conceptualisation of these challenging matters on new methodological bases and theoretical frameworks (Toomela, 2007(Toomela, , 2010Valsiner, 2009;Rosenbaum and Valsiner, 2011;Westerman and Yanchar, 2011 among others). Speaking on these issues, Valsiner (2009) pointed out that there are three major domains of oversight in psychology which are (1) eliminating to observations in existing or specially created experimental conditions (Veresov, 2014a).…”

“…There is a practical aspect here. To make this point clear I would use and example of Toomela (2010) In short, the problem of such an analysis can be reduced to taking each higher form of behavior not as a thing, but as a process and putting it in motion so as to proceed not from a thing and its parts, but from a process to its separate instances (Vygotsky, 1997, p. 68).…”