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Simultanious activities: play, cognitive and labour activity People engaged in paid activities — work

Activity is a conscious active subject interaction (sentient being) with an object (the surrounding reality), during which the subject purposefully has an affect on the object, satisfying any of his non-economic needs, achieving the goal[1].

Due to the extreme complexity and continuous changeability of external conditions, psychic forms of control of the practical interaction of a living being with the environment appear at the early stages of phylogeny. Research activities play key role. The main condition that played a decisive role in the origin and development of physical and spiritual properties of a person is labor. Many other activity types (playing, learning) are genetically related to labor. While based on physical labor in the course of socio-historical development, mental labor arises as a special, socially necessary theoretical activity. In the process of animal evolution, their practical interaction with the surrounding reality, and at the same time their research activities are becoming more complex and diverse. But at all stages of their development, the activity of animals remains a rather narrowly adaptive instinctive character, they are able to focus only on the external, directly perceived or visually represented side of surrounding objects and phenomena. Activity, depending on the value of the subject of activity, can be either creative or destructive. The activity is regulated by a system of values, and is managed by motivational processes.

Any meaningful activity of a person or organization can be called an activity. An activist is a person who develops any activity: a statesman, an artist, a politician, a military figure, and so on. Synonyms for the word "activity": labor, business, work, occupation, movement and others.

General information
In both positive and negative activities, the following processes can be distinguished (assumed to be present), which are generally performed:

The decision-making process; the process of involvement in the activity; the goal setting process; the process of designing an action plan (program); the process of implementing the action plan (program); the process of analyzing the results of actions and comparing them with the set goals; organizational processes, including the creation of structures, management and planning processes.

There is a use of other bases for the structural representation of activities determined by the objectives and goals of the study. Business models in this case are based on considerations of convenience, usefulness and sufficiency.

Basov was the first author and developer in Soviet psychology of a multi-level concept of the organization of behavior, psychology of activity, psychology of personality and psychological theory of the development of the subject in activity and communication, which was developed later by Rubinstein, Merlin and Leontiev, Ananyev, Sukhodolsky.