One of the features distinguishing human being from the outer world is the ability to set goals and motivation, which are closely connected with the processes of emergence and development of needs. On the basis of mathematical modelling, the author analyses the dynamics of development of need state for major types of needs.
This article presents a study into intercultural sensitivity on the basis of a student sample. The author conducted a comparative analysis of the development of intercultural sensitivity in students of two faculties. Special attention is paid to the need to introduce the ethnocultural component into university training programmes.
This article considers the views of Russian philosophers on education in the late 19th — early 20th centuries. The author identifies an compares the key philosophical and pedagogical ideas of L. N. Tolstoy, V. V. Rozanov, V. K. Wentzel, M. Rubinstein.
This article describes the historical context of development of psychoeducational approach and identifies its principal objectives in medical practice.
On the basis of diagnostics performed, this article discusses the problem areas of health behavior in children, teenagers, and young adults stydying within the educational system.
This article describes the basic negative and positive effects of social relations of a person in the context of their subjective well-being on the basis of international publications, which have not been translated into Russian yet and are little known in the country. The authors present their own typology of positive and negative effects of social support in situations of normal and abnormal social functioning of an individual.
This article focuses on the issues of practical application of social behaviourism ideas and presents the results of a training aimed at the
formation of effective behavioural patterns. The data obtained in the course of study require reconsideration of behaviourists’ ideas and an analysis of their application in educational process.