Contextual approach in psychology
The essence and methodological instruments of contextual approach in psychology are described in the article. Possibility to arranged description of the object under study in different intra-psychical and theoretical contexts is the main distinctive characteristic of the approach. Principles of contextual approach - principles of context's expansion, interdependence and variability, principle of contextual conditionality, system and complementarity are revealed; contexts' classification on different grounds is proposed; technique for contextual analysis is described. Context is considered as semantic mental mechanism and contextual approach - as a development of system approach, which makes it possible to specify coordinate system for ordering information about nature and mechanisms of psyche and to reflex on methodological grounds of knowledge obtained in the frameworks of different models and conceptions.