THE APPLICATION OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR EVALUATING THE PROPERTIES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS WHILE STUDYING THE THEME "HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY"
The process of student’s learning to evaluate the psychophysiological characteristics of schoolchildren is important in the training of potential teachers in the direction of "Pedagogical Education" (bachelor degree). On the topic "Higher Nervous Activity" we have prepared laboratory works for students, which allow us to evaluate such properties of the nervous system as "strength and lability", "well balance of the nervous system". The subject of the research is a comparison the objectivity of the assessment of the nervous system’s properties with using computer programs (author O. Syichev) and traditional methods (a tapping test and Eysenck test). We conducted research and found that computer-based methods for assessing the "strength of the nervous system" and the lability of the nervous system are objective, because give us a more accurate description of the nervous system properties. We compared the lability of the nervous system and the results of the tapping test. It was shown that students with a high lability of the nervous system have a balanced nervous system, and students with an average and low level of lability have an unbalanced nervous system. Computer programs for research the strength and the lability of the nervous system can be recommended as additional methods for obtaining an objective assessment of the properties of the nervous system. However, these computer programs have specific requirements for computer operating systems.