No 4 (2013)

The article considers a number of aspects of the problem of training a specialist with a university degree in the context of the competence approach.

This article presents some aspects of designing a healthy educational environment in the conditions of a modern University. The authors pay a special attention to considering the phenomenology of the educational environment and the identification of differences of health-creative educational environment from health-saving. The relationship between the educational environment and a context is shown. For the first time the authors submit the characteristics of the educational environment in the context of the type and disclose the essence of the contextual approach in designing health-saving and health-creative educational environment.

The article deals with the psychological conflicts in Sherwood Anderson’s prose. The author reveals the nature of estrangement in the short stories from the book “Winesburg, Ohio” (1919).

In the article the type of social-psychological personality characteristics as internality connected with the professional responsibility of a first-line manager is analyzed.

The article presents the results of the empirical studies of the manifestations of nervous system properties and the will of persons with different types of addictive behavior. The results of the study suggest the similarity of these symptoms in the vast majority of addicts, regardless of the form of addiction, and their differences in individuals without addictions.

The paper presents an analysis of the manifestation of perseverance variables in students. The quantitative measure of the respondents with high and low levels of manifestation of the given property of the personality is correlated.

Studying the speech of the younger preschoolers is a major factor in designing educational methods and preparing children for school. There exist individual and gender differences in the way children acquire speech skills. Word comprehension and idea interpretation depend on the child’s upbringing, his or her environment, the interaction within the family. This article submits the research data obtained from the study of the individual peculiarities of the younger preschool children’s speech.

The article examines the development of spatial thinking while studying solid geometry. The key note of the study is to examine the selected levels of spatial thinking: the creation and manipulation of spatial images in the course of solving stereometric problems.

The article presents a psychological study of future lawyers’ moral ideal formation. During the experimental work the main characteristics and contradictions specific for a certain level of moral ideal formation were revealed among the 1st to the 3rd year students.