APPLICATION OF MENTAL VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES IN FORMING THE STABILITY OF ATTENTION IN CHILDREN OF YOUNG SCHOOL AGE WITH VARIOUS LEVEL OF MENTAL DEVELOPMENT
The main purpose of this study was the problem of finding an effective method in the process of forming the stability of one of the higher mental functions - attention in the populations of children of primary school age, different in the level of mental development (normal development, the presence of reversible disorders, total mental development). The rationality of the application of mental visualization techniques based on the concept of neurolinguistic programming and adapted for use with regard to the age features of the junior schoolchild is considered. To assess the formation of the stability of attention, a modified method of Pieron-Ruther on software and hardware complex for psychophysiological testing. A total of 84 children were examined, the average age was 7,75 ± 0,95 years. The background level (before the correction work) and the control (after a series of corrective sessions with the use of mental imaging techniques that lasted for 6 weeks). When analyzing the performance indicators of the proposed task, we have identified group features in the ways of achieving an individual indicator. Trends of functional variability of attention stability indicators after a series of psychocorrectional exercises based on the use of mental imaging techniques are established. We have identified the organizational and methodical conditions that increase the efficiency of such psycho activities with children of primary school age.