subject: Student Life. Psychological Picture Of Personal Development [print this page] Student, who are you? Student, who are you?
Student as a person of a particular age and as an individual may be characterized from the three sides:
1)Psychological one that presents the unity of psychological processes, conditions, and characteristics of an individual.
2)Social one that implies social relationships and qualities that emerge as a result of belonging of a student to a particular social group, etc.
3)Biological that includes unconditioned reflexes, instincts, physical power, constitution, features, skin color, height, etc.
Psychological portrait
Treating a student as an individual makes think that the age of 10-20 years is a period of intensive development of moral and aesthetic feelings, character formation and stabilization and, what is the most important, the obtaining of the whole complex of social roles of a grown-up such as civil role, professional etc.
This stage is also defined as a period of sport records, considerable achievements in art, science, social life. The characteristic feature of this period is the strengthening of deliberate acts and conduct. Such character traits as purposefulness, resoluteness, persistence, independence, initiative, and self-possession are developed and become apparent. Students become more interested in moral problems such as goal, way of life, duty, love, fidelity.
The higher education has a great impact on the human psyche. During the studying process in a college in favourable conditions student experiences the development on the different levels of psyche. For successful studying in a college one has to possess a high level of intellectual development that includes perception, idea, memory, thinking, attention, erudition. If some aspects of this level tend to be diminished they can be balanced at the expense of high motivation or work capacity, assiduity, carefulness and punctuality in a studying. One more important criteria for successful studying of a student is the inner acceptance of new studying conditions that blocks any premise for a conflict a priori.
