Social-educational aspects of development of thought operation of classification during the seventh year of life

The objective of the analysis presented in the article is the alteration of classification thought operation in the seventh year of a child growth. The analysis was made in two aspects: social –how social-demographic characteristics are related with the development of classification operation, and educational – how different training methods influence the development of this thought operation. On the base of integrated analyses of these two aspects the conclusion, that systematic and relevant prepared pre-school education could be beneficial to a child’s cognitive development, was formulated. It is necessary to make the further researches to determination, what kind of environment is disadvantage for a child’s development. The specificity of the factors in the child’s environment, which could influence negatively his cognitive development, was identified as the most actual field of the research in the futureVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŠvietimo akademij