COGNITIVE ACTIVITY AS AN IMPORTANT PART OF PSYCHOLOGISTS’ PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Journal Title: Наука і освіта - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 5
Abstract
The article deals with cognitive activity as one of the most important concepts in psychology and pedagogy. The issue of training psychological staff is extremely important and requires careful and balanced consideration. When training psychologists at the universities teachers should pay particular attention to the development of students’ activity, independence, and creativity. Cognitive activity is considered as a complex psychological entity that defines qualitative characteristics of individual’s activity. It has motivational, operational and personal components. The carried out experiment involved 400 students (1-5th years of studying) majoring in Psychology. The level of the formation of students’ motivational component has been assessed basing on the orientation of motivation for educational activity, the level of their cognitive interest, cognitive needs, and cognitive initiative. Operational component in the study is associated with the students’ ability to apply their knowledge to solving various issues of different difficulty as well as their achievements at educational institutions. The personal component has been evaluated according to the level of their professional orientation, ability to work independently, the desire to study supplementary books and be engaged in additional activities in regard to their major. The study of cognitive activity of students-psychologists has specified the structure of cognitive activity, its components and levels. The following three levels of students’ cognitive activity have been distinguished: reproductive-imitative (students are characterised by low academic performance, they are not interested in studying and self-development), search-executive (these students study systematically, their academic performance is unstable, they do not read supplementary literature), and creative (these students have the skills of independent cognitive activities, they are focused on their future professional activities and have high academic performance).
Authors and Affiliations
Olena Machushnyk
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP573539
- DOI 10.24195/2414-4665-2016-5-36
- Views 125
- Downloads 0
PECULIARITIES OF SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION OF MOTHERS WHO HAVE CHILDREN WITH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
The article deals with the results of the theoretical and empirical research of coping-strategies of mothers who have different styles of maternal attitude towards their children with special needs. Individual peculiarit...
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LATEST WORLD-CLASS SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS IN TRAINING PROCESS OF FUTURE TEACHERS
The paper deals with the main directions and methodological principles of future pedagogues’ professional skills improvement, enhancement of their scientific outlook, and development of their methodological culture by me...
PECULIARITIES OF CAREER SELF-DETERMINATION OF MODERN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The issue of career self-determination of modern high school students is highly crucial at present when labour market is constantly developing thus increasing requirements for modern specialists training. Some young peop...
METHODOLOGICAL BASES OF DISTINGUISHING TYPES OF VALUE-SENSE SELF-REGULATION IN FUTURE TEACHERS
The paper considers the phenomenon of self-regulation, which is studied in the psychological science in the activi- ty (focus on the regulation of actions), behavioural (behavioural regulation) and personality aspects. T...
FACTOR OF PERFECTIONISM SELF-PRESENTATION IN THE STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY PERFECTIONISM
In psychology, perfectionism is considered as a drive for perfection, which implies inflated requirements to every action, combined with a tendency to exaggerated critical evaluations of one’s own behavior, the tendency...