Features of the organization of the concept Director at different stages of age development

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the features of the concept “Director” at different stages of age development. The study involved 638 respondents (pupils, students, film directors, psychologists) aged from 6 to 80 years. To identify the features of the organization of mental experience, the results of a directed associative experiment were analyzed (stimulus word - Director). The results of the study indicate that, as the age development and the mastering of professional activity, there is an increase in the differentiation and hierarchy of signs - first, the core and the outer periphery are distinguished, then the core, near, far and outer peripheries, and then - the differentiation of signs within the core. In the mature group of respondents and the group of film directors, the differentiation of features decreases, but there is an increase in the integration of features, which manifests itself in a decrease in differences between the core and the center. The basic characteristics of the director's personality are clarified - smart, responsible and creative. A significant predominance of emotional and evaluative features of the concept “Director” was revealed. A hypothesis has been put forward about the relationship between the measure of severity of the emotional and evaluative features of the concept “Director” and the measure of the integration of individual mental experience.