The geometrical model of linear picture recognition made with the use of the multidimensional scaling technique for estimations of the perceptive differences between the selected X-shaped figures is described in the article. We analyzed the constructed space of the configurations by means of the terms of Sokolov and Izmailov’s spherical model of differentiating stimuli. In our research we showed that the process of the X-shaped figures discrimination was realized by the three-channel neuron network detecting two sensory features of the stimuli. Comparing the results of this work with the results of the researches of the different diagrammatic representations discrimination (lines, angles, three-linear figures) demonstrated that the X-shaped figures, recognized by the angular value and orientation, were the basic elements for human visual perception.

The comparative analysis of consequences of different rivalry types (competitiveness, cooperation, altruisticity, individualisticity) has been carried out in the article. The differentiative effect of every type and subtype of rivalry on the group’s effective activity, its social-psychological state, an individual’s well-being and adaptation in the changing conditions of the modern Russia has been specified.

In the given article the problems of designing the vector model of the psychological health salving potential of the personality are considered and its scientific substantiation is offered for the first time. The authors pay special attention to revealing the correlation between metacognitive abilities, affective self-attribution and valeological attitude which are the basic component-vectors of the psychological health salving potential of the personality.

This article is dedicated to the demonstration of organization both as a process and a system having a difficult and mixed nature. The essence of the fundamental idea of the organization theory, connected with “the second human nature”, i.e. culture, is considered in the article.

The article discusses the problem of self-actualization of the personality. It also examines separate components of the author’s approach to self-actualization. The author’s techniques of research of the given phenomenon are described. The comparative analysis of self-actualization of the Russian and foreign students is carried out.

The article examines the contemporary representation of conjugal roles by Russian and Armenian students. It also reveals the specifics of differences and similarities in gender and ethnicity apprehension of the given ethnic groups’ representatives and characterizes the tendency of alteration in conjugal roles representation.

Some results of the empirical research of the psychological peculiarities and structure of temperament of the students, who are future health professionals are presented in the article.

The article deals with the problem of inquisitiveness of the personality. The specific individual and psychological features of its manifestations in students are considered.

The article presents the results of the research carried out with the purpose of revealing the meanings of the neurotic level anxiety. It defines and describes the meanings of normal anxiety: living through life, confrontation; and also the meanings of pathological anxiety: avoiding, denial of difficulties; the feeling of powerlessness and unfulfillment; low involvement in the process of life.

The article considers the concept of information competence of technical students. The description of stages of forming structural components of information competence in context-based training is submitted. The results of the experiment on forming information competence of future metallurgists are given.

The article is focused on one of the most important problems of the contemporary educational system, i.e. forming the educational potential of students through museum and educational activities.

The article analyses a complex of value, intellectual, social, personal, internal, moral-ethical components which are considered as a condition of formation of the legal responsibility of the student.

The results of the survey conducted among the teachers of colleges are analyzed and the interpretation of the statistical data on the problem of developing the interest in studying in low performing students of college is submitted in the article.

This article examines the history of teaching the Russian language, particularly highlighting the question of teaching orthography. The special emphasis is given to the system of orthography teaching presented in a pre-revolutionary book by A. Popov, reprinted in the 1920s.

This article deals with a topical problem of the modern mass school, i.e. the education of migrated people’s children and the possibilities of using the Russian oral folk art elements in the educational processes.

The article studies the communications of the distance heuristic Olympiad participants both in terms of their network contacts while solving educational tasks and in terms of the content aspect of the suggested tasks; it considers the educational potential of the popular network resources such as forums and social networks and describes the experience of organizing distance Olympiads in social networks.

The results of the research of the role of social intelligence in the professional self-realization of the personality in students-linguists are brought to light in the article. The results of the factorial analysis of the data are submitted and the connection between the level of self-realization and social intelligence of the students-linguists is established.

The article is devoted to the analysis and revealing the specificity of the relations between the aggression considered within the framework of the system-functional model, and the parameters of temperament of the Russian and Chinese students.

A brief review of the 4 th International conference on Pharmaceutical Life Cycle: Development, uses and environment, that took place on 1—3 September 2011 at the University of Paris 8 (France) is submitted in the publication.