1986'3, p.78
Chudnovsky V. E.
Urgent problems in the psychology of abilities
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Approaches to the problem of abilities which exist in the Soviet psychology are analytically reviewed, and a perspective for further research in this field is suggested. Among the central issues dealt with in the article: individual differences and age pre-requisites of abilities; role of natural endowments and particularly of formal-dynamic properties in development of content, experiential aspects of individual performance; personality approach to the study of abilities (purposeful development of a particular personality structure as a means of developing required abilities). In connection with the last issue the author provides some results obtained in studies performed in his Scientific Research Institute.