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It should be noted that from the course “Age age child “Psychology of the teenager and high school
Psychology” future specialists will gain knowledge student”, which makes 10% of theoretical material.
about the mental development of the child from birth to Unfortunately, much attention is paid to adolescent
school age, master the terminology, guidance in the age development, his or her social situation, communication,
periods of the mental development and the essence of self-expression needs, and increased sexual
age crisis of the student and ways of overcoming them identification among others.
in school; learn to distinguish between conscious and In our view, there is not enough theoretical and practical
unconscious manifestations of the psychology of materials to prepare a future psychologist to work in
elementary school students; future specialists will get elementary school.
acquainted with the specifics of diagnostic and We have analyzed the program of the course “General
collection of work with children of different school age. Psychology” and textbooks, that direct students to
Formation of relevant professionally oriented acquire knowledge and ideas about the mental activity
knowledge and skills of the future specialist was of the younger generation as a means of reflection and
facilitated by the study of topics: “Psychological transformation of the world; to analyze functioning of
development of a young school-age child”, “Psychology psychic patterns; expanding outlook and professional
of a “heavy child”, “Characteristics of the development horizon (Maksymenko & Soloviienko, 2000).
of the psychic in ontogeny”. Students are introduced to the structural components of
In our view, for future practical psychologists, an in- the human psychology. Future specialists have acquired
depth study of the topic of the “Associationist Concept the skills to explain the features of the course of mental
of Learning by Watson and Gazri” is important, which processes, understand the functioning of mental states
proves the thesis of establishing associative stimulus- and manifestations of mental properties; at the level of
reactive communication on the basis of reinforcing the self-control and self-observation of their own mental
behavior of the subject. states and behaviors, they can describe their functioning.
The analyzed training course “Age Psychology” reflects In the process of preparing future specialists in applied
the training of the future psychologist on the main 10 behavioral analysis, it is important to focus on the
topics; among them there is one topic of the seminar acquisition of knowledge on the following issues
dedicated to the developmental problems of the school- (Figure 2).

Psychological Service in the Educational System

Pedagogical Psychology Age Psychology

THE COURSES FOR
General Psychology THE COMPLEX QUALIFICATION Social Psychology
EXAMINATION IN PSYCHOLOGY

Basics of Psycho Correction Psycho Diagnostics

Figure 1. The courses for the complex qualification examination in Psychology for the future specialists.

The concept of psychological knowledge and methods of psychology

Psychology as a science, stages and features of its development
THE
MAIN
ISSUES The structure of mental phenomena and their relationship

Analysis of the manifestation of mental phenomena and their psychological content

Figure 2. The main issues for the acquisition of knowledge of future specialists in applied behavioral analysis.
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