Mosaic thinking: psychological deficits and alternatives (spatial focus)
The article is devoted to the transformation of modern thinking becouse of development of the virtual space of life. Clip thinking is considered as phenomenon of 21st century's «digital personality» which constitutes and formatted by media space. The paper is devoted to understanding of deficits and potentials of «clip thinking». Potential of symbolic thinking that generates a holistic, three$dimensional knowledge, relationship, impression and active reflection of personality is considered as alternative of «clip». Proved that symbolic thinking can expand and multiply the internal topology of individual life. An explorative experimental study of specifics of individual impressions during clip and non$clip presentation of symbolic images is presented. The research is based on the ideas about clip thinking of contemporary researchers, the model of meaningful perception and model of impression proposed by Starovoytenko and method «Symbolic Places» developed by Osipova. A new bipolar dimension of cognitive style, «clip-symbolic», is revealed. The prospective study of life abilities of «clip thinking» are outlined in the paper