1995'3, p.21
Savina E. A.
The peculiarities of 5-10 years old children's view on a soul
(RESUME)

5-years old child has a view on soul as on specific inner phenomenon which cannot be detected by eyesight and touch. The soul is understood by a child to be a source of life and movement, its functions are emotions, thinking, memory, desires. 6-years old child considers emotional-moral aspects to be the main characteristics of a soul; this is connected to such developmental formations as generalization of experience and primary ethical notions. Some of the children of this age demonstrate elements of own psychic organization reflection. The knowledge about soul is not enriched with age; it is an evidence of modem educative system failure to supply necessary means of psychic reality cognition.