Abstract: (1) The main progresses are as follows: focus on the explorationof a series of problems in elementary theory; plenty of outcomes in thestudy of the history of Chinese psychology; distinguished outcomes inWestern psychology; some progresses in research on psychology in the USSRa good beginning on the study of Panshu's psychological thought. (2) The study on several main theorical problemes are as follows,relationship between psychology and dialectical materialism; the essenceof the mind; contradictions and dynamics of mental development; the re-lationship between activity and practise; consciousness and unconscious-ness; the division of primary categories of mental activity; personality;history of Chinese psychology (for example: category, comparison, inhe- ritance, measures, etc.); the assessment of Western psychology (for exa-mple: assessment of humanstic psychology, psychoanalysis, Piajet's geneticepistemology and cognitive psychology) . (3) Feature directions for further development: conscientiously persis-ting instructions of dialectical materialism; persisting the style of studyof integrating theory with practice; vigorously enhancing the study ofChinese psychology; persisting the policy of "widely gathering everybody'sadvantages" and "making foreign things serve China"; further improvementof the diathesis of researchers of elementary theory.

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