The article investigates into the characteristics of verbal associations given in native language by 10 year old pupil participants. Results revealed that verbal associations given by same age participants from different linguistic environments differed in terms of association contents, distribution of associates by grammatical classes and stereotypy of reactions.

Families’, teachers’ influence and peer pressure to the learning of pupils with special needs. Parents, as a rule, the best knows their children needs and abilities. Teachers having special education are in charge with the best pedagogical developments as well as questions concerning behaviour psychology. However, both parents and teachers competency complement each other, thus helping to aim welfare for children with special needs. Defining problem emphasized in the work, it should be remarked, that it is already spoken a lot about the children with special needs. There also has been discussed such problematic issues as: how to support parents having the children with special needs, how to contribute to the teachers education at school. However, in my view it is still insufficient work done in order children with special needs could easier learn and simply adjust in our world. Purpose of the research: Identify, what is the influence that family and school community does to the children with special needs. Object of the research: Family and school community influence to the learning of 6-7 grades pupils with special needs. Hypothesis: Family and school community influence a lot children with special needs studies. Tasks of the research: 1. Analytical overview of the scientific and pedagogical literature, intended to influence knowledge of families and school communities having children with special needs. 2. Ascertain family and school community (teachers, peer... [to full text]

Adolescence is a transitional period from childhood to adulthood. It is important now to acquire asn indenpedance, to find identity.

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit war Schülerskreativitäts besonderheiten und deren Verbindung mit Selbstbewertung festzustellen. Um Kreativität der Schüler zu bestimmen, wurde Urbanas und Jellenas (1998) Methodik des kreativen Denkens verwendet. Für die Selbstbewertung der Schüler wurde die Methodik der Selbstbewertung von A. Petrulytė benutzt. An der Untersuchung haben 205 Schüler teilgenommen: 101 Mädchen und 104 Jungen. Bei der Zusammenfassung der Resultate ist zu bestimmen, dass bei dem Kreativitätsvergleich nach Urbanas und Jellenas Methodik in zwei Schüleraltersgruppen festgestellt wurde, dass Ergebnisse des kreativen Denkens beim Malentest bei den alteren 18-19 Jahre alt Schülern besser (x=5,80) sind als bei den jungeren 14-15 Jahre alt (x=5,48). Aber Ergebnisse des T-test zeigen, dass dieser Unterschied vein statistisch gesehen nicht wichtig ist (t=-0,936, df=98, p=0,352). Beim Geschlechtvergleich nach Urbanas und Jellenas Methodik wurde klar, dass Mädchen im Malentest kreativer (x=5,94) als Jungen (x=5,31) sind, aber dieser Unterschied statistich gesehen ist nicht wichtig (t=-1,864, df=98, p=0,065). Korelationsergebnisse zeigen, dass eine direkte Verbindung zwischen dem kreativen Malentest und Lernleistungen entsteht (r=0,461, p=0,000). Das heiβt, die Schüler, die besseren Notendurchschift haben, sind kreativer. Beim Vergleich der Ergebnisse nach Petrulytės Methodik (im Zussamenhang mit Geschlecht der Befragten) kann man behaupten, dass Mädchen (x=3,13) gröβere als... [to full text]

The aim of this work is psychological characteristic of the student. The aim of the analysis is to describe the psychological characteristics of the future border guards and the students of technical specialty (auto-mechanic). As basic characteristics of the future border guards and the auto - mechanic were chosen the following characteristics: aspiration, value orientation, the reasons of study, self-evaluation and the motivation of study. According to the aim of the work such tasks of the research work were proceed. To analyze the following psychological characteristics: reasons, aspiration, value orientation, motivation of study and self-evaluation problems in psychology. To describe the psychological characteristics of the future border guards and the students of the technical specialties. To set the cohesion of motivation of study and the process of self-evaluation. To compare the future civil service self-evaluations, aspirations and value orientations with the technical specialties students’ self-evaluations, aspirations and value orientations. In the work the following methods are applied: the analysis of scientific works and the questioning. In this research the students of Visaginas Border Guard School and the students of Visaginas Technology and Business School were taken part. The results of the research demonstrate the differences between the reasons of study and further reasons of study of the future border guards and the future automakers. The students of... [to full text]

Inga Leonavičiūtė Paper for Master’s degree Psychological readiness of Master’s degree students for further academic career Psychological career readiness includes obtaining of personal, professional, educational and social competence, ability to assume responsibility for one’s activity and to purposefully act in changing situation, i.e. it determines the further career development. Career readiness assessment is important for a person while choosing occupational activities and making choice in favour or prejudice of a career since it allows better understanding of one’s intentions and thus facilitates the decision-making process. The aim of investigations was to analyse the psychological readiness for academic career of students doing their Master’s degree in Psychology. The objectives of the investigations were as follows: 1. To reveal the approach to studies of the students doing their Master’s degree in psychology. 2. To analyse students’ attitudes towards their professional future. 3. To compare the assessment of readiness for academic career of the students doing their Master’s degree in Vilnius Pedagogical University, Vilnius University and Mykolas Riomeris University. 4. To elucidate how the students conceive the academic career. 5. To compare the peculiarities of the approach to academic career readiness of the full-timers to that of the external students. 6. To assess the interdependence between the satisfaction from the studies and the self-assessment of the... [to full text]

Wegen des schnellen wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts, wegen der Informationsmenge in der Schule, wird es wichtig, nicht nur das Wissen zu übertragen, in unterschiedlichen Bildungsstandarts wird es auf die Notwendigkeit verwiesen, die Fähigkeiten und Kreativität des Kindes zu entwickeln, deswegen ist die Anfangsstufe in der Schule besonders günstig diese wichtige Eigenschaften der Persönlichkeit zu entfalten und weiterzuentwickeln. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit war die Kreativität und mathematische Fähigkeiten der Kinder des jüngeren Schulalters (1-4 Klasse). Es wurden folgende Aufgaben hervorgehoben: 1. die Besonderheiten der Kreativitätspfeile der Schüller von jungerem Schulalter nach dem Alter, Geschlecht und nach dem Wohnort festzustellen; 2. die Kreativitätspfeile der Schüler von zwei Altersgruppen (1-2 Kll. Und 3-4 Kll.) zu vergleichen; 3. die gegenseitige Verbindung zwischen der Kreativität und der mathematischen Fähigkeiten der Schüler festzustellen; 4. den Bindefaden zwischen der mathematischen Fähigkeiten der Schüler und des akademischen Fortschritts festzustellen. Untersuchungsmethoden: wissenschaftliche Literaturanalyse, das Paket der statistischen Analyse von SPSS13.0 und Microsoft Word, als auch von dem Computerprogramm Excel. Bei der Untersuchung der Kreativität wurde die Methodik des kreativen Denkens von E.P.Torrance (1974) verwendet. Diese Entscheidung hat das Vorhandensein des kreativen Denkens als Bestandteil der Kreativität vorausbestimmt. Die Aufgaben für die... [to full text]

In the research participated patients of „Anykščių šilelis“ sanatorium neurological departament. There were chosen three different explore‘s groups: good health, illness: reversion ischaemic neurologic deficit (RIND) and insultus ischaemicus cerebri, 100 explores in each group. The aim of the research – identify and compare verbal associations of different age groups in native – Lithuanian – language, their peculiarities, dynamics. The method of free associations has been chosen. Data analysis was accomplished according to the following aspects: stereotypes of reactions, contents and distribution of associations according to grammatical categories. Once the analysis has been accomplished it became clear that when the explores talk defect decline the stereotypes of language decrease. If we look at the meanings of associations, the tendency of decrease of syntagmatic and paradigmatic answers is noticed among when the explores talk defect decline. From the point of view of grammatical categories, substantival answers dominate in all explore‘s groups.

The aim of the present work has been to analyze the ways of adolescents’ anger expression and to estimate the relations between emotional and behavioral problems. There was collected data about 198 11-18 years old adolescents. In the research there were used YSR 11/18: Youth self – report (Achenbach, 1991), TRI - Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Davis, 1980) and STAXI – C/A– State - Trait Anger Expression Inventory – 2 For Children and Adolescents (Spielberger, 1999). The results of the research show that there is a positive correlation between anger expression index and internal behavioral problems (value of p is 0.00) and external behavioral problems (value of p is 0.00). Internal behavioral problems also correlate with anger as a state (value of p is 0.00), anger as a trait (value of p is 0.00), internal (value of p is 0.00) and external (value of p is 0.00) anger expression, internal anger control (value of p is 0.02). External behavioral problems correlate with anger as a state (value of p is 0.00), anger as a trait (value of p is 0.00) and external anger expression (value of p is 0.00). There was estimated a negative correlation between adolescents’ anger as a state and their competence (value of p is 0.02). A positive correlation estimated between external anger expression and social activity (value of p is 0.01). A positive correlation also estimated between internal anger control and learning (value of p is 0.03). Anger of adolescents is also related with... [to full text]

This study was designed to explore children visual thinking peculiarities. Participants were 201 children (133 girls and 68 boys). Firstly, two age groups were formed (6-11; 12-18). Within each age group children were assigned by studies (children attending the school of Art and children from the higher grade school ). Children were shown six topics, which they had to represent (using paper and 12 colors) in such a way, that a stranger could recognize the represented topic. Different results occured. Children in the age 6-11 from the higher grade school used less colors in their drawings, the color didn’t introduse any symbolic meaning, as to the content- it was concrete (94,4%), while 12-18 year old higher grade school children and adolescents and 6-11; 12-18 year old children and adolescents from the school of Art introdused quite opposite results: their drawings were mainly abstract (80,4%, 84,4%, 89%) and carried symbolic meaning of color.