Psychological and pedagogical optimization tools for the volition behaviour of the over-fives
Abstract
Volitional behaviour is a complex psychological phenomenon, which requires a combination of internal
(motivational) and external (educational) influence. As a psychological structure component, volitional
behaviour has its components such as motivation, volitional actions that are formed in the process of the
child’s cognitive activity. During the pre-school period of the child's development there is not only a new
correlation of motives, but the motives themselves acquire another, a peculiar character i.e. they become
mediated, capable of inducing the child's activities in accordance with the intention. Due to this, it becomes
capable of conscious moral choice. The main forms of manifestation of child capacity are activity,
behaviour, and communication with other people. There are determined three types of activity: physical,
intellectual, communicative and three groups of indicators: speed, ergic and variability. The volitional
sphere development of the preschool children personality takes place on the principle of the normative
behaviour establishment. The dynamics of volitional behaviour at the stage of pre-school childhood is
determined by the content of voluntary actions of children in various types of childhood activity and is
developed in the individual characteristics of manifestation levels of the motivational and regulatory
structural components of volitional behaviour in the over-fives.