Keywords
comparative psychology
Publications
Meshkova N.N., Fedorovich E.Yu. (2007).Actual problems in zoopsychology and comparative psychology teaching. Moscow University Psychology Bulletin,3,109-112
The article considers problems in zoopsychology and comparative psychology teaching that Russian universities are facing nowadays. The teaching of this discipline by lacking special interdisciplinary qualifications lecturers often leads to misapprehension of the subject by students. The problem is also aggravated by growing opposition between two major paradigms in treatment of the human nature (socio-cultural and biological approaches) and increased biologization tendencies in human behavior interpretations manifesting themselves in direct analogies with behavior models of animals belonging to various taxons.
Pages: 109-112
Keywords: the teaching of zoopsychology;
human instincts;
comparison of human and animal;
comparative psychology;