Concept of Self-Regulation in Activity Theory: Psychophysiology and Psychophysics Perspectives

In general AT, a predecessor of AAT, various scientists carried out studies of voluntary and involuntary memory when subjects performed memorization tasks. These scientists focused on analyzing the effect of motives, goals, individual features of subjects in their memorization process, etc. (see, e.g., Zinchenko, 1961). However, at that time nobody studied short-duration stages of information processing. Only after the emergence of cognitive psychology did scientists in AAT start combining cognitive psychology methods with AT methods.