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XVIII International Congress of Psychology, August 1-7, 1966, Moscow, USSR
Reports on the Congress
XVIIIth International Congress of Psychology. Moscow, USSR, August 1-7, 1966.
By No authorship indicated
American Psychologist, Vol 20(5), May 1965, 363-365.
[from The History of the International Union of Psychological Science]
The 18th International Congress of Psychology, Moscow, USSR, 1966
Organization of the congress
[there was...] a total participation of 3897 scientists from 43 countries and approximately 1000 accompanying persons.
The Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, P.N. Fedosseiev, had, with the consultation of eminent Soviet psychologists, appointed a Program Committee with A.R. Luria (Chair) and O.S. Vinogradova (Vice-Chair). The Organizing Committee was chaired by A.A. Smirnov, with I.V. Ravich-Scherbo acting as Vice-Chair. A.N. Leontiev had been elected President of the congress.
Scientific program
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Alexei N. Leontiev (1903–1979): President of the 18th International Congress of Psychology, Moscow, 1966.
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Besides the opening and closing plenary sessions, 37 symposia and 10 thematic sessions were held during the congress. Evening lectures were delivered by A.A. Smirnov (USSR) “The development of Soviet psychology,” by Jean Piaget (Switzerland): “Psychology, interdisciplinary relations and the system of sciences,” and by Neal Miller (USA): “Experimental investigation of psychopathology and theory of learning.”
Three volumes of abstracts and 37 volumes of reports which had been chosen for discussion at symposia and thematic sessions were published before the opening of the congress and handed out to participants. The working languages of the congress were Russian, English, and French. Abstracts and the texts of the reports were published in the language in which they were presented, but the papers by Russian authors were also translated into English or French to facilitate their dissemination.
The ceremonial opening of the 18th congress took place in the Kremlin’s Palace of Congresses, and was attended by more than 5000 people. The first session of the congress was opened by the Minister of Education of the USSR, V.P. Elyutin. Other opening addresses were given by P.N. Fedosseiev, by M.V. Keldish, President of the Academy of Sciences, by N.T. Sizov, Assistant Chairman of the Moscow City Council, and by J. Drever, Jr, President of the International Union of Psychological Science. All other congress meetings, as well an exhibition of psychological literature and one of experimental equipment, took place at the Moscow State University on Lenin Hills. Both exhibitions (particularly the books) were very popular with participants.
TABLE 9.1
Symposia and thematic sessions: 18th International Congress of Psychology
Symposia
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Ecology and ethology in behavioral studies (Chairs: R. Chauvin and A.D. Slonim)
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Cybernetic aspects of integrative brain activities (Chair: A. Masturzo)
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Integrative forms of conditioned reflexes (Chair: E.A. Asratyan and H.F. Harlow)
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Classical and instrumental conditioning (Chair: J.M. Konorski)
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Orienting reflex, alertness and attention (Chair: E.N. Sokolov and D.B. Lindsley)
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Electrophysiological correlates of behavior (Chair: W. Grey Walter)
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Biochemical bases of behavior (Chair: R. Russell)
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Psychopharmacology and the regulation of behavior (Chair: A. Summerfield)
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Physiological bases of individual psychological differences (Chair: A.A. Smirnov)
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Frontal lobes and the regulation of behavior (Chair: H.L. Teuber)
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Mathematical models of psychological processes (Chair: W.K. Estes)
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Motives and consciousness in man (Chair: J. Nuttin)
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Experimental studies of set (Chair: E.V. Bassina)
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Neuronal and behavioral bases of sensory processes (Chair: R. Jung, Y. Katsuri, and G.V. Gershuni)
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Detection of signals (Chair: R.J. Audly and J. Krivohlavy)
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Information theory and perception (Chair: F. Attneave)
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Organization of human information processing (Chair: F. Klix)
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Psychological problems of perception of space and time (Chair: I. Akishige and D.G. Elkin)
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Biological bases of memory traces (Chair: M.R. Rosenzweig)
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Short-term and long-term memory (Chair: K.H. Pribram)
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Memory and action (Chair: T. Tomaszewski)
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Models of speech perception (Chair: G. Fant)
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Concept formation and “inner action“(Chair: J. Bruner)
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Heuristic processes in thinking (Chair: W.R. Reitman and A.D. De Groot)
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Pathological psychology and psychological processes (Chair: O. Zangwill)
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Theoretical problems of man-machine systems (Chair: A. Chapanis)
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Psychological problems of man in space (Chair: V.V. Parin)
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Longitudinal studies in child development (Chair: R. Zazzo)
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Perception and action (Chair: J.J. Gibson)
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Speech and mental development in children (Chair: L. Bartha)
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Learning as factor in mental development (Chair: J. Bruner and N.A. Menchinskaya)
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Mental development and sensory defects (Chair: A. Roska)
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Methodological problems of social psychology (Chair: R. Abelson)
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Social factors in the development of personality (Chair: U. Bronfenbrenner)
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Cross-cultural studies in mental development (Chair: O. Klineberg)
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Psychological aspects of behavior in small groups (Chair: H. Hiebsch)
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Work and personality (Chair: A.A. Zvorykin)
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Thematic sessions
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Neuropsychological studies of animal behavior (Chair: J. Bures)
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Psychological mechanisms of verbal processes (Chair: R. Jacobson and N.I. Zhinkin)
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Studies in psychology of personality (Chair: A. Lewicki)
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Problems of psychology of mentally retarded children (Chair: T.A. Vlasova and N. O’Connor)
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Historical and theoretical problems of psychology (Chair: E.V. Shorokhova and K. Sato)
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Early development of behavior (Chair: A.V. Zaporozhets and G. Pyriov)
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Factors and forms of learning in animals (Chair: R. Solomon and L.V. Krushinsky)
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Problems of speech comprehension and psycholinguistics (Chair: V.A. Artiomov and A. Mazucco-Costa)
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Problems of sensation and perception (Chair: P.A. Shevarev and R.A. Gregory)
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Psychological studies in movement and action (Chair: N.F. Dobrynin and J. Brechacek)
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Over 2 days, the delegates were shown films dealing with psychology and related disciplines. At the same time as the planned sessions, small scientific conferences concerned with problems of creative activity, human engineering, social psychology, ecology, and ethology, were organized on the initiative of certain participants to discuss these branches of the discipline.
The participants and guests visited several Moscow Research Institutes: inter alia, the Institute of Psychology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR, and the Psychology Department of the Moscow State University.
The closing ceremony took place on August 11, in the Assembly Hall of Moscow State University. Karl Pribram (USA), Tadeus Tomaszewski (Poland), Jean Piaget (Switzerland), Paul Fraisse (France), and Barbel Inhelder (Switzerland) gave the final speeches. Concluding remarks were made by A.R. Luria, Chair of the Program Committee and by the newly elected President of IUPS, Paul Fraisse. After the final session, there was a farewell banquet in the restaurant of the Palace of Congresses.
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