Keyword: «age features»

The article deals with the concept of "sociocultural environment", presents factors for optimizing it in conditions of preschool and primary general education.

The article substantiates the effectiveness of socio-communicative development of preschool children through play activity. The study was conducted on the basis of the municipal budget preschool educational institution kindergarten № 28 village Risovy, Slavyansk district. Pupils of the middle group took part in the research. As a result of the study was diagnosed the level of socio-communicative development of preschool children.

The article presents the results of empirical research aimed at revealing the relationship be-tween age and gender characteristics and an individual's propensity to superstition. The authors compare the level of propensity to superstition in the samples of men and women of different age groups and give the rationale for the obtained results. It is shown that age and gender peculiarities influence the formation of superstition and magical thinking. At the same time, women show a greater propensity to superstition than men. The propensity to superstition and magical thinking de-creases with age. Superstition and magical thinking can have a negative impact on self-image and interpersonal interaction which can be counteracted with group or individual psychocorrective work.

The article reviews the role of psychological characteristics of schoolchildren, in particular such an individual feature as memory. The main types of memory that have the greatest impact on the process of memorizing words are considered. Based on the age features of schoolchildren described in this article, the conditions necessary at different stages of education for the successful development of vocabulary are identified.