No 3 (2014)

The article presents the results of the research of the psychological characteristics, including the behavior regulation, of people of different professions: with their activity strictly regulated (pilots, N = 44) and with flexible timetables (freelancers, teachers... N = 40). It is shown that there exist certain development features of the behavior control components (volitional, cognitive control and emotional regulation) and the relationship between these components in groups of people with a different degree of professional activity regulation. The behaviour control of pilots is characterized by a higher integration and interrelation of all the components, whereas the behavior control of people working flexible hours has lower connectivity and fragmentation of its components.

The results of the experimental research of visual perception of differently shaped and colored stimuli have been described in the article. The main goal of the experiment was to identify a combination of visual modules, employed in recognizing the stimuli. The desired aim was achieved by building a spherical model of the stimuli and interpreting its formal and contensive properties in terms of vector approach. It has been observed that recognizing complex stimuli is realized as a multichannel network with a specific combination of graphic and color two-channel modules, modeled in the form of a multidimentional sphere.

The article provides new approaches to analyzing and studying value motivational aspects of personal activity that predetermine innovative activity and submits the analysis of a comparative empirical research of value motivational characteristics in students with different levels of innovativeness. On the basis of the detailed description of the strategy of the research the paper presents new significant characteristics of the value motivational sphere of young men and girls.

The article describes the peculiarities and the differences in the manifestation of adaptability in African, Chinese and Latin American students studying in Russian University.

The purpose of the reported paper is to discuss some social-psychological aspects of education in the modern world. In particular we are interested in the analysis of the influence of mass media and new technologies on the education.

The article under study summarizes the results of the research aimed at studying the issue of developing coping strategies among would-be psychologists. The authors point out that training a psychologist who should be competitive in modern society presupposes focusing on such activities which would actualize the resources of a person helping overcome professional challenges. The authors try to define the most effective practical methods employed to let an individual find special ways to control stress as well as what should be the pivot point in developing or optimizing coping ability of an individual and what specific methods contribute to this process.

The work presents one of the priority directions of the development of the education system for students with disabilities, namely, the organization of their training in comprehensive educational institutions. The integrated co-teaching is recognized by the world community as the most humane therefore it has become one of the major directions in the Russian educational policy. Today, the task of the state and society is to make sure that all children can get an education and live as fully as possible, regardless of their health problems.