COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN SITUATION OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS

Abstract

Human beings grows, develops, learns, receives life experience, formed as a person and just lives in a specific environment (social, physical, biophysical etc.), interacting with him (them) and trying (through the development of certain abilities) to "adapt" to it (them). That environment (complex environments), in which often this person is, forms the sense of the reality in which extends vital activity of the person. Almost until the end of the twentieth century, most people had to deal mainly with two realities - the external (that exists in space) and internal (that exists in the brain, consciousness). Now more and more people spend time in the third reality, virtual reality, which is not fully external (physical) or internal (psychological). The influence of its environment (essentially simulacrum) has both social and physical components. If the main effect of the fantasy world, illusion of the social environment of the virtuality have been studied for a long time, the relationship of physical parameters of the virtual world with changes in cognitive features of so-called "digital children" much less studied, even though its importance for understanding the underlying processes of restructuring the consciousness of modern man is much more significant.

Keywords: physical reality, psychological reality, virtual reality, cognitive development, "digital" children.

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