Balabanova L. The norm category in research and regulation of human functional states

The dissertation presents the conception of researching the norm category and its using in investigation and regulation of human functional states. The conception is based on the principles of system approach. Norm is considered as a process, which provides an optimal system's functoning in its interaction with enviroment. The method and algorithm of the estimation of indexes, which characterize the psychophysyologycal structure of a student's personality and peculiarities of functional states during the period of adaptation to conditions of higher school in aspect of the populate norm and of the individual one, have been defined. The specificity of the adaptive reactions of junior students determinesd by the complex of the individually-constitutional, psychophysyologycal and personality determinants, have been shown. The ways to optimize students' functionai states, using the technique of cholotrop breathing, and approaches to the psychocorrective process, have been developed.