69 schoolchildren were distributed along the "verbal - figurative" continuum depending on peculiarities of their cognitive style. Then educational and vocational interests in extreme groups (19 subjects in each) were revealed. It was found out that children with basically "verbal" cognitive processes were more interested in physical culture and labour training, in geography, biology, history, Russian and English lessons, and in the signonomic professions. The "figurative" group showed more interest to the socionomic and artonomic professions.