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conduct research to identify behavioral modification strategies, and to elicit public cooperation to
stem AIDS epidemic, develop ways to help people and families, and would devise multicultural
approaches.
3056.6 Trafficking or myth: Cross-border female migrants in an Ethnic Village in Yunnan,
China, Z.X. He, University of Connecticut, CT, USA
This paper argues that, although originated from trafficking, the contemporary cross-border
migration has taken on a remarkably different approach increasingly voluntary and well-informed.
My fieldwork in an ethnic village along Yunnan-Burma border in 2000 illustrates this shift.
Employing the Information, Motivation and Behavioral Skills Model (IMB), I conduct a
qualitative analysis on their motivations of migration to Thailand. Conclusion: They migrate
mainly because their community has been disrupted. The socio-political structural imbalance and
division of labor also contribute to it. A deeper psycho-social analysis is needed to better interpret
their reasoning and the association between migration and HIV/AIDS.
3057 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Activity theory approach in psychology today
Convener and Chair: N.F. Talyzina, Russia
Co-convener: L. Quintauar, Mexico
3057.1 Activity theory of learning as the base of new type of education, N. Talyzina, Moscow
State University after name Lomonosov, Moscow, Russia
Activity Theory opens the way for new psychology: instead psychology of functions - psychology
of actions. This approach the most have been promoted in the theory of learning. Now it is known:
a) Action has a system structure. b) Quality of actions is determined by their orientation base. c)
The most effective orientation base has the invariant content. This type can be used for work with
any variant of system. d) Utilization of this orientation type for education essential reduces the
time of education, forms the system thinking, the intellectual abilities of students.
3057.2 Application of activity theory concepts in neuropsychology, Y. Solovieva, L. Quintanar,
University of Puebla, Mexico
Neuropsychology studies specific factors or components of psychological processes related to the
functioning of central nervous system. From the point of view of activity theory these components
can be understood as psychophisiological mechanisms of actions and operations or as elemental
level of human activity. The neuropsychological analysis of learning difficulties can be based on
activity theory. The present study shows how functional disorders of psychophisiological
mechanisms can affect the fulfilment of the same actions of children with learning disabilities. The
discussion stresses the importance of inclusion of the terms of activity theory to the practice in
neuropsychology.
3057.3 Relationship between speech and drawing in preschool age, L.F. Oboukhova, Moscow
State University, Russia
We have analyzed children drawings (3-7 ages) from the viewpoint of development of formal
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