Shmargun V. Age and individual mentalsomatic peculiarities of children as predictors of their mental development (junior school and adolescent ages)

The thesis is devoted to learning of age and individual mentalsomatic peculiarities in the formation of children's mental abilities. A new line of psychological science "psychosomatic normal development" has been substantiated. The conception "mentalsomatic peculiarities of the norms" has been broadened. The results of long comparative research are shown in the thesis. The age and individual of mentalsomatic peculiarities in the formation of intellect in children who are developing normally and in the children with setbacks in psychological development are also reflected in the thesis. In the process of study of the structure and the dynamics of intellect and cognitive-style peculiarities, neurodynamical qualities of the HNA, neuropsychological description of free moving activity it was established that the children of the comparative groups differ greatly according to sensorno-perceptive and sensomotoric indicators of this complex of mentalsomatic pecularities. It has been established the integral influence of mentalsomatic indicators on the formation and display of mental abilities as multilevel sensorno-perceptive and sensomotoric phenomena in the hierarchic structure of mental development of a person. They are considered as a link in the process of developing from graphic sensation and perception into thought, cognitation. The results of the research have got practical importance for improvement of educational process, the formation of mental abilities in schoolchildren.