Genesis of the traditional scheme dividing the human activity into acts, operations, and deeds correlated with goals and motives is for the first time documentally substantiated. It is shown that the scheme first elaborated in 30-40-ies by S.L. Rubinstein and in 40-50-ies by A.N. Leontiev, was later significantly transformed on the basis of the theory of the psychological as a process developed by S.L. Rubinstein and his pupils. In that theory psychological aspects of the activity and its components (acts, motives, etc.) acquire meaning as far as we can represent the psychological as a regulatory process mediating the interaction between a man and his world. Only in a such process - ever continuous (non-disjunctive) - there form its disjunctive components (mental acts and operations, all kinds of corresponding products, etc.). The issue of correlation between the social and the individual in this process is discussed in the context of critical analysis of M.M. Bakhtin's theory.