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Conscious Control during Childhood, Development of
The article reconstructs the panorama of studies on the development of conscious control during childhood that were carried out in the 1990s and 2000s. The principal attention is paid to the main stream in this direction: the achievements of the positive psychology movement (i.e., the branch of psychology aimed at supporting and developing positive qualities of the person). With this aim, both broadly known and much less known but deep studies carried out in the adjacent fields are analyzed. The constructive part of this article considerably expands the Levels of Consciousness basic model proposed by P. D. Zelazo (Canada) in 2004. It considers four levels of the development of conscious self-control of thought, emotion, and action and covers the child's age from one to four years. The expanded model proposed by V. A. Fomichov and O. S. Fomichova (Moscow, Russia) introduces three additional levels, where the seventh level is called the Level of Enhanced Awareness of Social Agreements and Social Responsibility. The fifth and sixth new levels are called the Level of Broad Beauty Appreciation and the Level of Appreciating the Value of Thought. The new model covers the ages from five - six to 13 - 14 years. The seven-level model is underpinned by the System of the Methods of Emotional-Imaginative Teaching belonging to the constructive core of Cognitonics (the science about the human being in the digital world).
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