DYNAMICS OF PROFESSIONAL-COGNITIVE ACTIVITY IN STUDENTS OF PSYCHOLOGY
The understanding of professional-cognitive activity structure is theoretically justified in the article. The results of a one-year longitudinal study on its forming components are presented on the example of the students of psychology. The overall decrease in the intrinsic motivation along with the weakening of the motives of the educational prestige, professional and educational-cognitive motives have been found in the motivational component. The significant deterioration in volitional self-control along with the increase in the ability to overcome stressful learning situations have been detected in the regulatory component. The dynamic component changes have been found: the deterioration in its creative part and the improvement in the performing one. No dynamics has been revealed in the resultative component.