Psychological characteristics of thinking style of youth students

Inna Ivanova
Abstract

The article The article highlights the results of a pilot study of stylistic features of the thinking activity of student youth. It is noted that students come to institutions of higher education with formed features of thinking that affect cognitive activity, the prevailing thinking style leads to a certain advantage in the learning style, determines the dominant cognitive style in which a person receives and processes information. The following characteristics of thinking activity were subject to research: cognitive-active style in operating with ideas during cognitive activity, type of thinking and level of creativity, style of information acquisition, analyticity, reflexivity of thinking, rigidity of thinking and style of thinking. According to the results of the study, a significant variability of the manifestation of the characteristics of the respondents' thinking process and the individuality of their combination are noted. The idea of the need for such an organization of teaching methods is justified, which would ensure the effectiveness of information perception and processing, as well as provide the opportunity to display individuality in the output of the thinking process by students with different dominant characteristics of thinking to ensure their sense of ability and success in learning

Keywords

thinking, thinking activity, thinking style, student youth, characteristics of thinking style

Suggested citation
Ivanova, I. (2023). Psychological characteristics of thinking style of youth students. Humanities Studios: Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, 11(1), 135-148. https://doi.org/ 10.31548/hspedagog14(1).2023.135-148
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