Keyword: «adolescence»

The article deals with the concept of lability as the speed of the nervous system's response to an external stimulus, as well as intellectual lability as the ability to efficiently assimilate information, quickly transition from one task to another. The results of the study of the level of intellectual lability of ninth-grade students are presented,as well as recommendations for the development of intellectual lability.

This article discusses the age-psychological characteristics of adolescent children. It describes the main approaches and driving forces that determine the readiness of teenage students for the upcoming exams. The results of diagnostic methods to identify the psychological readiness of adolescent children are presented. And also some recommendations for preventive work on this problem are given.

The article analyzes the approaches of different authors to understanding the intellectual development, attention, perception, and thinking of adolescents. The influence of students ' cognitive activity on academic performance is considered. The results of an empirical study of the mental development of students in grades 5 are presented. Different aspects of mental activity are analyzed – mindfulness, semantic reading, and mathematical thinking.

The article analyzes the results of a theoretical and empirical study of differences in social perceptions of adult roles among orphaned adolescents and adolescents from families. The authors substantiate the idea that social representations of adult roles in orphaned teenagers and from families have significant differences. A comparison of ideas about parental, marital, professional, and socio-economic roles is given. The proposed approach will be of interest to teachers-psychologists of residential institutions, educational organizations, as well as parents.

This article is devoted to the problem of resistance to stress in adolescence, it discusses the main provisions and theories that reveal this issue. The analysis of the phenomenon of «stress tolerance», as well as the main age-psychological characteristics of young men. The materials of the diagnostic on the problem of stress resistance in adolescence are presented and recommendations for its development are given.