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Psychological processes that underlie individual subjects’ acting and thinking can be studied in different ways. Outcomes (products) of these processes have usually served as bases for generalizations about these processes. These outcomes—be these responses to test questions or recorded behavior in experiments or observations—constitute static representations of the processes that have generated them. Therefore; a conceptual difficulty in much of psychology has been the contradiction between the dynamic character of psychological processes and the static nature of empirical data used in the analysis of these processes. From time to time, calls for inquiring into these processes directly, rather than through their products, have been made (Bertalanffy, 1952; London, 1949; Vygotsky, 1962, 1978; Werner, 1957). Nevertheless, the majority of psychologists have remained faithful to the tradition of studying static products of their subjects’ actions and of making inferences to the dynamic processes that may have generated these outcomes.
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Valsiner, J. (1986). Sequence—Structure Analysis. In: Valsiner, J. (eds) The Individual Subject and Scientific Psychology. Perspectives on Individual Differences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2239-7_14
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