PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUNGER SCHOOLBOYS UNDERSTANDING OF MORAL CATEGORIES
The article analyzes the peculiarities of understanding of younger pupils of moral and ethical categories and the ability to verbalization of conscious meaning. Explores the feature of assimilation younger students morality, moral concepts (goodness, friendliness, conscience, justice, evil, greed, envy, cunning) criteria: relevance, validity and applicability of concepts children. A comparative study was conducted with the participation of primary school children with normal and low degree of learning. A comparative study was conducted with the participation of primary school children with normal and low degree of learning. The results showed a number of similarities to the assimilation of moral concepts in this age, subjects from both groups: specific situational ownership of the concepts and a full understanding of the characteristics of negative moral concepts, the definition of concepts through value judgments. Identified specific features common to both groups: younger students are more fluent in how the meaning and experiences related to negative moral concepts.