PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTENT OF COGNITIVE RESOURCES OF THE SUBJECT OF ACTIVITY

Abstract

Relevance of the study. The fundamental issue of ensuring the cognitive functioning of the individual both in objective crisis and emergency conditions of life (in particular, in war conditions), and in conditions of subjective limitations caused by individual brain morphology, prompts a new consideration of the issue of cognitive resources. Traditionally, the term "cognitive resource" was used to explain differences in task performance, limitations of attention, working memory, control, fatigue and interference. However, despite its widespread use, the construct of cognitive resource remains theoretically heterogeneous and operationally insufficiently defined, which requires its conceptual revision.

The Aim of the article is to conceptualize the list and content of cognitive resources of the individual.

Conclusions. Theoretical analysis of the problem of cognitive resources made it possible to consider it from the standpoint of four approaches: 1) structural, reflecting the capacity characteristics of resources (the number of mental elements simultaneously involved in solving a problem); 2) parametric, reflecting the mental space in which the process of finding a solution to a problem unfolds, which is provided by encoding information at the level of frames, scripts, schemes and connotations; 3) content, where each cognitive resource corresponds to the cognitive processes of perception (cognitive style field independence), thinking (cognitive style of abstract conceptualization, the relationship between analytical and synthetic thinking styles, implicit theories of intelligence), memory (cognitive style of sharpening and metamemory), speech (metalinguistic abilities) and imagination (creativity and metacreativity); 3) personal, represented by coping strategies for planning problem solving, self-efficacy, constructive basic beliefs and ideas, and healthy schemas.