Open AccessFUNCTIONAL ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN THE PROCESSES OF CONSCIOUS SELF-REGULATION: THEORETICAL ANALYSIS
Author(s) -
Т. А. Титова,
I. Titov
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
psihologìâ ì osobistìstʹ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2410-3527
pISSN - 2226-4078
DOI - 10.33989/2226-4078.2021.1.227200
Subject(s) - constructive , function (biology) , meaning (existential) , reflexivity , context (archaeology) , psychology , set (abstract data type) , flexibility (engineering) , cognitive psychology , functional approach , control (management) , resource (disambiguation) , personality , social psychology , cognitive science , computer science , artificial intelligence , sociology , psychotherapist , management , economics , process (computing) , paleontology , social science , computer network , evolutionary biology , biology , programming language , operating system
The article is devoted to the problem of the functional role of imagination in the processes of conscious self-regulation of personality as a complex integrative phenomenon. The need to consider conscious self-regulation in the context of the resource approach is determined.
Conscious self-regulation, manifesting itself in the initiative-creative mode, in the ease and success of mastering new types of purposeful activity, in the ability to solve non-standard tasks, in changing conditions that require changes, etc., associated with the generalized ability to set goals, to model significant external and internal conditions, to program actions, to control and evaluate current and final results, and to adjust the regulatory system.
The adequacy of these skills to the requirements of the activity, their flexibility and reliability is largely determined by the functional involvement of the imagination in self-regulatory processes, where it 1) provides goal setting (goal-setting function) and expanding activity’s meaning basis (meaning-making function); 2) participates in modeling and subsequent productive transformation of the figurative content of the problem situation (modeling function); 3) enables reflexive regulation (control, evaluation, correction) by a person of his/her own actions and deeds, which determines the constructive direction of activity (reflexive-regulatory function).