Background
TEPLOV, Boris was born in 1896.
TEPLOV, Boris was born in 1896.
1921 graduate History and Philology Faculty, Moscow University.
1921-1923 worked for Red Army research establishments. 1929-1933 associate, from 1933 laboratory head, department head, then deputy director for research, Moscow Institute of Psychology. 1946-1953 also head, Chair of Logic and Psychology, Academy of Social Sciences, Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
For many years also taught psychology at Moscow University. 1958-1965 chief ed, journal “Voprosy psikhologii”. 1959-1965 Presidium member, Centr Council, Psychologists Social.
Founded Laboratory of Individual Psychological Differences at Institute of Psychology, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. Continued Pavlov’s research on higher nervous activity in man. Did first Soviet research on visual sensation and perception.
Studied effects of light in military camouflage and in architecture. Did research on psychology of art and psychology of musical ability. Established theoretical principles of ability and talent, connected with individual psychological differences.
Studied history of psychology, especially views of Russian revol democrats and history of Soviet psychology. Did research on practical intellectual quotient. In 1950’s studied basic (typological) properties of human nervous system.
Devised original methods for determining the properties of the nervous system, made a statistical check of these methods and discovered some new properties of higher nervous activity. Began a study of the psychological manifestations of these properties in educational and in the labor process. 1954 attended 14th International Psychology Congress in Montreal and read a paper on “The Theory of Types of Nervous Activity and Psychology”.
1956 also spoke on this topic in Paris. Coauthor and cd, five-volume Tipologicheskiye osobennosti vysshey nervnoy deyatel’nosti che- loveka (The Typological Features of Human Higher Nervous Activity) (1959-1966). Wrote secondary-school psychology textbook.
Wrote and edited various textbooks for higher educational establishments.