THE STRUCTURE OF MENTAL STATE

<p class="x-----------" xml:lang="en-US">This article deals with the peculiarities of structural and functional organization of mental states of three age groups’ respondents. Depending on the degree of exposure in primary school children, adolescents, and adults similar in nature mental states, but different in their stability and structure are observed. It was found that children with different levels of mental development of a completely different operating parameters of the states – mental proces-ses, physiological reactivity, feelings and behavior. The specifics of the states and the reliefs showed different levels of mental activity of children of three age groups. The structural and functional organization of mental states to identify the different structures of blocks, their interconnectivity, and they differ in the degree of involvement of the parameters of mental states to each other. Each group revealed a different level of mental activity. The differences in the mechanisms of perception of children of three age groups depending on the level of mental development.</p><p class="x-----------" xml:lang="en-US">The<span class="char-style-override-1"> aim </span>is to study the features of mental conditions of «school age» children, their structural and functional organization of the perception of the artistic image «Before the Wedding» picture of the famous Russian artist F.S. Zhuravlev’s «Before the Wedding». Identification of the mechanisms of perception of the image and the features state structures of subjects.</p><p class="x-----------" xml:lang="en-US"><span class="char-style-override-1">Method and methodology of work.</span> Research carried out on the basis of a systematic methodology and the theory of activity developed by Vygotsky, Leontiev, Luria and A. Brushlinskii subject approach, SL Rubinstein and also theoretical principles and provisions of the concept of mental conditions of the person (A.O. Prohorov) and concepts of color (J.W. Go-ethe, P.V. Yanshin et al.). The material of the study served as a theoretical analysis of the general and special literature on the perception of color and artistic images.</p><p class="x-----------" xml:lang="en-US"><span class="char-style-override-1">Results.</span> Our studies suggest that mental states are in a constant depending not only on the perceived image, but also on the characteristics of mental development test, depending on the age characteristics and level of education.</p><p class="x-----------" xml:lang="en-US"><span class="char-style-override-1">Area of aplication. </span>The results of our study can be used in the course of the educational process, the organization of practice, creativity younger schoolchildren, adolescents and children adolescence. It is also a continuation of the study, studying manifestations of mental states in the mental activity of the respondents.