Denisenkova N.S., NIsskaya A.K. Developing arbitrariness and attention - the most important preschool features

Denisenkova N.S., NIsskaya A.K. Developing arbitrariness and attention - the most important preschool features // Preschool Education Today. 2010, Issue 3 - p. 74-78.

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2010, 3

Natalya S. Denisenkova
Cand. Sci. (Psychol.), Professor at the Department of Social Psychology of Development, the Faculty of Social Psychology, Moscow State Psychological and Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russian Federation

Anastasia K. Nisskaya
Cand. Sci. (Psychol.), Associate Professor, Department of Educational Programs; Research Fellow, Center for Contemporary Childhood Studies, Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract

Active, impulsive, inattentive, disobedient, restless, disorganized, hyperactive - an incomplete list of definitions that adults (teachers and parents) give to children who have problems with attention and volition. The article presents the differentiation between these features in the children’s behavior from attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity. Games and tasks aimed at developing of the arbitrariness in the preschool age are described. Authors also provide recommendations for the adult in organizing the child’s life that would increase the arbitrariness of a preschooler.