No 2 (2012)

In this article on the basis of the integration of the methodological approaches, for the first time, there has been proven the noohumanistic approach including the structurally-contensive, functionally-processual, didactic, and individually-personal components of the pedagogical model for the formation of the noohumanistic worldview of the future experts' personality.

The article provides a comparative theoretical analysis of creativeness, innovativeness and entrepreneurial spirit in a personality. Relying on this analysis, the author points out the principal differences in the concepts stated above and formulates the definition of innovativeness as of one of the factors generating innovative potential in a personality.

The geometrical model of discrimination of four-line diagrammatic representations, made with the multidimensional scaling method of subjective estimations of perceived pairwise differences between pictures is described in the article. The derived geometrical model of the representations, interpreted in terms of Sokolov and Izmailov's spherical model of differentiating stimuli, is presented as a spherical surface in four-dimensional Euclidean space and is characterized by three spherical coordinates. The discrimination of four-line figures is defined by picture configuration characteristics.

The author of the article has carried out the historical and pedagogical analysis of establishing and developing the university system for training the medical personnel in Russia in the XIX-XXI centuries; the forms of the organization, standards and models of learning are considered, the tendencies of the system development are revealed.

This article deals with the main principles and stages of the integration process of a foreign student into the modern system of education based on the network technologies. The author outlines the advantages of using network technologies within the process of integration of a foreign student into the Russian educational system.

The article submits the results of the system approach to studying the persistence of teen-sportspeople: the expressiveness and correlation of the conceptual-semantic and instrumental-stylistic characteristics, as well as the peculiarities of the correlative and factor structures of the given quality of their personality.

The empirical results of the longitudinal research of inquisitiveness in youths and young girls during their higher school study are presented in the article. The inquisitiveness research is done in the frame of A.I. Krupnov's conceptual approach. The comparison of the results is based on the factor analysis.

The paper presents the results of developing and testing a new psychodiagnostic technique ODA-2010 intended for the diagnosis of addictive behaviors.

The article discloses the problems of functioning and developing self-education in the modern Russian higher school. The importance of self-education as a means of vocational training and self-improvement of the future specialist's personality is determined in the publication.

The article considers the method of SWOT analysis which is widely used in the system of higher school management.

The article provides a definition of the system of tasks, the main requirements for its content and structure are considered in relation to their properties. The particular attention is given to the most common rules and methods of developing the system of tasks in the context of the activity approach.

A brief review of the International Program of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) that took place on 1-4 March 2012 in Pittsburgh (USA) is submitted in the publication.