HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF COGNITIVE ACTIVITY In the 60-80th of the XXth century
The main task of the Russian educational policy is ensuring modern quality of education based on the preservation of its fundamental nature and in line with current and future needs of the individual, society and state. Forming the base of contemporary cultural identity, the development of intellectual abilities of students, creative personality, creative thinking is one of the urgent tasks of modern education. In this regard, the formation of cognitive interests of today's students is of great importance. As you know, cognitive interests act as a valuable motive activity in the formation of personality. In the course of development, cognitive interests are gradually becoming its stable feature. Cognitive interest is linked not only to the acquisition of knowledge, but also covers the entire sphere of human activity, it is closely related to its vital installations. In the process of acquiring knowledge and skills, cognitive activity of students plays an important role. Development of informative activity, ways and methods of activization of educational activity - one of the most urgent problems of pedagogy, since the formation of the activity in the learning process is a determining factor in the self-determination, self-realization. Psychologists, teachers, even philosophers refer to this problem. Over time, it has been designated as the central pedagogical problem. During the second half of the twentieth century, the problem of formation of informative activity of students occupied a central place in psychological and educational research of scientists. The overall objective is set before the modern education: the task of forming a fully developed personality not only capable of gaining the system of knowledge, but also to the creative processing of this knowledge, as well as to the independent search for new ways of obtaining knowledge and its application in non-standard situations.