The orientation basis for action and the skill of study

Activity approach as a basis for the Federal State Educational Standard of the Russian Federation demands the analysis of how important is the existent system of versatile educational actions and how it can be used and extended. The extension here means that students actively appropriate social experience and acquire the skill to study. This paper is aimed at discussing the main development stages of psychic on the basis of such categories as "ontogenesis", "phylogenesis", "biogenetic law" and the structural elements of actions within the framework of the general psychological theory of activity. Versatile educational actions broaden the sphere of orientation basis for any action. Besides, they present the fostering component of consciousness and characterize the deliberateness of knowledge acquisition