Tatyana Konovalova

This paper summarizes the results of a study on the impact of mastered specialty representation of space and time students. The subject of research is the content and organization of verbal and figurative representation of time and space in the minds of students with different areas of specialization. The aim of the work was to identify differences and similarities reprezentirovannosti characteristics of space and time in the minds of students of humanities and technical disciplines. Theoretical and methodological grounds are: systemic and subjective approaches of cognitive psychology of mental represented the internal structures. At the base of empirical research is theoretical and empirical positions psychosemantics. The study was conducted on students 2-4 courses of the Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University, Yekaterinburg. The findings indicate the existence at the stage of training some qualitative differences in the organization of mental representations of space and time due to the orientation mastered professional activities. Further empirical studies will clarify and extend the findings of this study