ABSTRACT
The Slovak school of experimental psychology is characterized with respect to its psycho-regulatory conception, its methodological-integrative approach, and its principle of interfunctionality. The psycho-regulatory paradigm is presented in an historical overview of leading paradigms of experimental psychology. Psychologists study how mental functions regulate behavior under controlled states of the organism in various situations. Experimental projects on visual-spatial discrimination and on word discrimination illustrate our methods of research. Perceptual and mnemonic processes are inferred from the results of some 200 experimental projects carried out at our institute. We expect our future research on these problems to proceed at both microanalytic and macroanalytic levels of analysis.
