The relationship between the indicators of the success of training and the level of development of cognitive processes in children aged 6-8 in the preparation period for studying at secondary school

The content of the article proves that readiness of children for school training (or a school maturity) is an achievement of such level of the general development which provides success of their training at school, adaptation to new conditions, duties by them, the high level of psychological development of any regulation of attention, feelings and perception, thinking, memory, imagination, the speech and gives the chance to the child to read, consider, solve problems "about itself", i.e. in the internal plan. Currently, however, there is a clear mismatch between the requirements of the level of preparedness of children to study at secondary school, declared in a program of regu latory documents and the actual state of children during the transition to high school. In this regard, it was suggested that the identification of the relationship degree, the level of development of mental processes and the success of training in children aged 6-8 will provide the basis for technique development of neutralizing the negative influence of new conditions of training and education. The empirical base of the article is the results of studying the degree of correlation between the indicators of the development level of mental processes and the success of training in children aged 6-8, which can serve as another proof of the well-known thesis about the negative impact on the mental condition of the children transition to the system of learning at secondary school.