Displays and causes of laziness and procrastination vary in both their essence and the influence they have on human activity. Students with different academic performance tend to display laziness and procrastination in different ways. The results of the research on procrastination and laziness patterns, shown by students with various academic performance rates, are described in the article. The levels and causes of laziness and procrastination for students with different academic performance were defined by means of diagnostic methodology. Based on the methods of Mathematical Statistics, such as the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient and the Mann–Whitney U test, the levels of procrastination and laziness were compared in correspondence with students’ academic performance rates. A negative correlation was discovered between the level of academic procrastination and students’ academic performance. Another correlation was established for such causes of laziness as “Capability deficiency” and “Lack of interest”. The differences in laziness levels as well as causes of laziness and procrastination were identified between students with high and low academic performance rates. A conclusion was made that in the process of forming the basic conditions for studying, it is highly important to recognize displays of procrastination and laziness among students with different academic performance rates.

Аbstract. The research solves the problems of analyzing the main approaches devoted to the study of clip thinking, examines the relationship of the phenomenon of clip thinking and attention. An empirical research provides an assessment of the level of clip thinking among representatives of generations X and generations Z; the features of attention are researched among representatives of generations X and generations Z; the existence of interconnections between the characteristics of clip thinking and the characteristics of attention among representatives of generations X and generations Z; significant differences were established between the characteristics of clip thinking among representatives of digital and upnetwork generations.Accelerating the pace of life and work of modern society, first of all, requires a person not only to have a high ability to focus for a long time on a particular object, but also to quickly and accurately switch from one object to another. This leads to a decrease in the quality of the selected information, as well as the mixing of third-party factors with the main investigated phenomenon, which additionally loads and disorients the work of a person as a whole [1]. As a result, we get a superficially thinking person who is not capable of longterm concentration on a specific object, impulsive action and a low level of reflection, which in turn is a sign of clip thinking.Clip thinking upsets the balance of cognitive mental processes, enhancing or weakening specific properties of a particular sphere.For the first time, the American futurologist E. Toffler spoke about the phenomenon of clip thinking in the book Futuroshok of the same name in 1970. He believed that clip thinking is a product of the impact information society on the person. The surrounding world, with its active influence on the individual, strike his psyche, resulting in a state of over-excitement [2].

The presented results of the study allow us to determine the ratio of verbal and nonverbal components of thinking activity in solving problems of different types. The novelty of the research is in the use of individual cognitive maps made on the results of collaborative thinking activity in the study of possible combinations of symbolic (verbal) and figurative (nonverbal) components of internal thought processes implemented in different conditions. The study included two methodological blocks. The first of them is diagnostic. It consisted of four tasks (a verbal task with one solution, a verbal task with multiple solutions, a nonverbal task with one solution, a nonverbal task with multiple solutions), as well as a cognitive map based on the results of solving these tasks. The second block is mathematical and statistical, including the Kruskal-Wallis H-test, the Mann-Whitney U-test, and the Fried-man chi-square test. The study sample consisted of 80 students of the Don State Technical University. As a result of the study, it was found that cognitive maps created with time constraints significantly outperform cognitive maps created without such restrictions in terms of figurative, symbolic abstractness and symbolism. Cognitive maps created without time constraints significantly outperform cognitive maps created with time constraints in terms of imagery. In general, the predominance of the verbal or nonverbal components of thinking can vary significantly, but the general trend towards the predominant character of the imagery of thought processes remains.

В статье приводятся результаты исследования воздействия творческих способностей на функционально-ролевую структуру группы и общегрупповые показатели творчества, дается качественный и количественный анализ полученных данных.

Functional roles are of considerable interest in research of joint mental activity. For many years it has been the purpose of investigating to classify functional roles. Few researchers have considered the problem from the point of internal cognitive processes. Most of the research has been focused only on the exposed side of the process. This paper considers functional roles in joint mental activity by using cognitive maps of its participants. The results allow describing internal thinking process of participants in the joint activity who perform various functional roles. The obtained data can be used to analyze the reasons for success and failure in joint mental activity.