Keyword: «creative process»

Project method is a learning model that encourages future professionals in the creative process of solving professional and personal problems. The article gives a brief description of the method and the experience of its use in the practice of a teacher of additional education. It is noted that individual projects serve important goals of professional training and creative development of participants, enhance cognitive motivation, the activity of creative thinking.

The article considers the views of the well-known Russian scientist K. A. Timiryazev on creative process of scientific cognition, definition of the role and importance of theoretical and applied science in society. Acting as a staunch supporter of the evolutionary approach, the scientist applies it to the human creative activity process explanation. Timiryazev defends the priority of pure science over applied fields. Not denying the huge role of applied fields, he noted that they should not and cannot be the goal of science. At the same time, scientific thought can exist only on condition of complete freedom. Popularization of science is of great importance, which makes it possible to achieve recognition and support of scientific research in society.

The article deals with the phenomenon of spontaneity and its role in human life. A theoretical analysis of the concepts of foreign psychology was carried out, where they draw on the significant role of the phenomenon of spontaneity. Currently, psychological science faces an interesting question – to study the significance of unconscious mental processes in human life, attempts to establish control over a variety of mental phenomena, one of which is the phenomenon of spontaneity. Therefore, it is important to familiarize people with this phenomenon in order to increase the level of psychological culture.