No 4 (2012)

The article is devoted to the ethnic features of value orientations in students from different parts of the world. It is shown that the lives of the students from Latin America and Central Asia are more holistic and meaningful than the lives of the students from China, the Middle East and Russia. Latin American students are more focused on individuality, self-regulation, and the Central Asian — on collectivism, the controllability of life events. The gender specifics of the value orientations of students are described. The connection between the students’ value orientations personality components such as a basic trust in the world, social and emotional intelligence, ethnic identity and tolerance towards the people of other ethnic groups, stress-coping strategies are analyzed.

The article highlights the results of a comparative study of the gender specifics of the manifestation of orderliness in Arab and Mongolian students.

The essence of the concept «synergetic education» is considered and the basic principles of synergetic education are characterized, the role of synergetic thinking in forming the scientific world view is shown in the article. The authors developed and scientifically proved the theoretical and conceptual model of forming the synergetic culture of the personality in the context of the priorities of a modern education system.

The possibility of a migratory intentions research in the context of the social-psychological concepts of «attitude» and «social-psychological space» is proven in the article. The poly-object characteristic is proven as the specific feature of the migratory attitudes demanding social comparison.

The article is devoted to the research of social visibility of one’s own body image in the gender aspect. The components of their own body image in girls and young men and also the impact of the psychological and social factors on the perception of gender image are estimated in the comparative aspect.

The article presents the analysis of the empirical results of the study with the purpose to identify the different types of personal fulfillment.

This article describes the features of sociability and curiosity in people with different types of character “core”. It reveals the necessity to investigate the above mentioned features for studying the integral structure of the character.

In the article the results of the research of the temperament of students with various degrees of adaptedness are presented, the peculiarities and psychological structure of temperament in more and less adapted first-year students are described in particular.

The geometrical model of recognizing stimuli represented by the images composed of lines has been considered in the article. We have constructed the three-dimensional space having made use of the multidimensional scaling technique for averaged superthreshold estimations of the subjective differences between lines, angles and cross-shaped images. By means of the terms of Sokolov and Izmailov’s theory this space was the recognition model of differentiating our selected stimuli. The main specific feature of the model was the differentiation of these images by use of visual categorization.

This work analyzes the structural and content characteristics of psychological readiness for enterprise activity in higher school students and the psychological and pedagogical conditions of their optimization in the process of training.

In the article the essence of the concept of the «developing information educational environment» is considered and the characteristic of the psychological and pedagogical conditions necessary for designing the above mentioned educational environment is presented in the context of the modern education system priorities.

The article considers the specifics of using business-training computer games in the system of higher education. It also shows the educational potential of business-training computer games which consists in the stimulation of the cognitive interest of the trainees and creates the opportunities for the development of the pedagogical means focused on the virtual space of electronic training.