Behavior as a processual and dynamic characteristic of person

The article presents the main positions of L.I. Antsyferova on personality as a developing systemic integrity, in which all processes and mechanisms that include personality in interaction with the world are integrated into a common semantic basis. The coincidence of the key positions of Antsyferova’s concept of personal behavior (to be responsible for all life on Earth, to follow emotional and empathic morality, to make morality the basis of relationships) with the ideology of the document of experts on the results of the foresight of the century (strategic dialogue with all on Earth, empathic management and empathic education) is shown. The authors analyze “behavior” as a processual and dynamic characteristic of personality from a historical perspective: they show the priority of domestic scientists in presenting the behavior of the organism as a reflexological process (I.M. Sechenov, I.P. Pavlov, V.M. Bekhterev), give approaches to the scientific content of the concept of “behavior”, types of behavior (K. Levin, P. Janet, A. Bandura, J. Rotter). The semantic closeness of the phenomenon “behavior” with the processes: movement, interaction, activity, attitude, transformation is shown. The original position of I.M. Sechenov is given as the highest level of behavior, where the will, high moral principles and responsibility are combined, which is the basic characteristic of behavior. The justification for the use of the concept “activity” in the scientific vocabulary of Soviet psychologists and the necessity of introducing the term “behavior” into the scientific concepts of modern Russian psychology is presented. The functional purpose of the concept “behavior” in correlation with the concepts of “activity” and “communication” is substantiated.