Peculiarities of cognitive activity of adolescents

Abstract

The questions posed in the article are devoted to the sexual and age specific features of the adolescents’ cognitive activity. Here, activity is characterized as an activity that arises with some kind of human needs. The leading activity of teenagers is intimate personal communication. Therefore, cognitive activity in the life of adolescents, in comparison with such needs as self-identification, self-determination, self-affirmation, which make up the structure of the individual, are not very much important. The features, the level of development of cognitive activity of adolescents in the article are explained by the interconnection of the components that
make up the cognitive sphere: perception, attention, memory, thinking, imagination and emotional-volitional processes. It is noted that the more these components correspond to age, the higher the efficiency of cognitive activity. Another issue that is paid close attention is the emotional content of cognitive activity of adolescents associated with puberty. So, teenagers show high emotionality including in educational process. Cognitive activity also increases their emotional tone. Given this, the cognitive activity of adolescents should be linked to their self-identification, self-determination and other needs. In this case, adolescents in the educational process will exhibit modeled, conscious, productive and integrative activities. Such activities are cognitive activities.