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peculiarity consists in the study of complex functional structuresof behaviour and their specific laws. The objectiveness makes it
akin to the natural science methods of studying behaviour. Thismethod of investigation is connected with the use of objectivemeans in psychological experimentation.When we investigate the highest functions of behaviour whichare composed of complicated internal processes, we find thatthis method tends in the course of the experiment to call intobeing the very process of formation of the highest forms of behaviour, instead of investigating the function already formed
in its developed stage. In this connection, the most favourablestage for investigation is the third one, that is the externalcultural method of behaviour.When we connect the complicated internal activity with theexternal one, making the child choose and spread cards for thepurpose of memorizing, and move about and distribute pieces,etc. for the purpose of creating concepts, we thereby create anobjective series of reactions, functionally connected with theinternal activity and serving as a starting point for objective
investigation. In so doing we are acting in the same way as, forinstance, one who wanted to investigate the path which the fishfollows in the depths, from the point where it sinks into wateruntil it comes up again to the surface. We envelop the fish with astring loop and try to reconstruct the curve of its path bywatching the movement of that end of the string which we holdin our hands. In our experiments we shall at all times also holdthe outer thread of the internal process in our hands.As an example of this method we may cite the experimentalinvestigations carried out by the author, or on his initiative,concerning memory, counting, the formation of concepts andother higher functions in children s behaviour. Theseinvestigations we hope to publish in a separate study. Here weonly wanted to describe in a most concise and sketchy form theproblem of the child s cultural development.
