The article shows the role of the attachment system (child-mother interactions) in development of a wide spectrum of individual personality characteristics. Emo tional attachment of the child to mother is considered as a complicated system of internal regulation and a basis of typology of mental development. Results of a series of empirical studies show the connection between the type of attachment, formed at the early stages of child development, and characteristics of his/her au tonomy, self-concept, self-esteem and empathy in preschool and middle childhood.

The article presents the results of a case study of visual agnosia. A rare case of multiple visual agnosia (object agnosia, prosopagnosia, dyslexia, color agonsia) of a patient with the bilateral damage of the brain is described. A set of various methods has been developed to diagnose the variety of cognitive disorders. A neuropsychological approach has been used to qualitatively analyze errors. Some particular features of visual cognitive disorder are considered from the point of view of the dynamic complementary interaction between the brain hemispheres and their functional asymmetry.

In article are described main results of the study cognitive and behavior predictors of treatment motivation beside 150 women with alcohol addiction are described. 3 level-groups were chosen: with negative, with ambitendent-ambivalent-unstable and with positive levels of treatment motivation. For each level-group of treatment motivation typical determined particularities cognitive and behavior predictors of treatment motivation: the recognition of disease, the ambitendent-ambivalent relation to disease, the general self-efficacy, the alcohol abstinence self-efficacy, coping- strategy and the persistence in achievement of the purpose of treatment activities are revealed. These predictors can be targets of psychotherapy of the women with alcohol addiction.

The present paper discusses contemporary problems and approaches to the development of assessments in domains of educational psychology and psychology of abilities. We briefly report the results of the development and the adaptation of two assessment batteries based on R. Sternberg’s theory of successful intelligence. The paper shows that a cross-cultural adaptation of contemporary foreign assessments is a productive approach.

The authors represent a diagnostic method, testing ways of interpersonal cognition. They describe an attempt to study the ways of interpersonal perception at adolescents of 14—15 years old. Respondents’ ways of interpersonal cognition were correlated with their school advancement and data of tests on intellect, anxiety and sociometry choice. It was shown that the method, described at this article, has a differentiating strength and it can be used for studying personality development in further researches.

Paper is devoted to the basic postulates of ecological theory (U. Bronfenbrenner). Survey of empirical studies conducted in the context of ecological approach in the field of sport psychology is presented in this work. It indicates on advisability to combine positions of ecological approach with objective diagnostic methods of sportsmen’s professional skills. The conclusion is that approach could be used in the solving problems that face sportsmen, their parents, coaches and sport psychologists.M

On October 20-22, 2009 , the traditional International conference "Ananyev Readings" was held at St. Petersburg University.

On November 24, 2009, Tatyana Gavrilovna Stefanenko, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Head of the Department of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology of Lomonosov Moscow State University, a recognized specialist in the field of ethnopsychology and psychology of intergroup relations, celebrated her anniversary.

October 15, 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of Alexander Ivanovich Dontsov, a scientist, teacher, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, professor of the Department of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology of Lomonosov Moscow State University, a full member of the RAO.

November 19, 2009 is the anniversary day for the Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, a talented scientist and teacher Olga Timofeevna Melnikova.