IMAGINARY CHARACTERISTICS OF PSYCHIC STATES MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS IN STUDENTS’ LERNING

The article presents the results of studying students' mental states situational determination and the features of the figurative characteristics of mental representations during learning process, the characteristics of the structural organization and the dynamics of the figurative characteristics of representations in the time ranges “Past - Present – Future”. Respondents are different specialties and profiles students, in general 237 respondents. The research was carried out in the context of the study of mental representations of cognitive states in learning activity. The theoreti-cal basis was the author's concept of the image of a person's mental state. The research used methods of phenomeno-logical description (freely constructed answer), analysis of situations and images of states in these situations, methods of studying the figurative characteristics of states. Imagery characteristics were considered in different time ranges: actual time “here and now”, week, month, year in the “past” and “future”. As a result of the research it was found that in describing the subjective image of the state, the most common are the ideas about the physical and physiologi-cal manifestations of this state, the features of behavior in this state, and also the description of the feelings experi-enced in this state. Analysis of the structures of state images shows that the structure of images of "simple" states is more "rigid" than in the images of complex states. The images of states are the most coherent and organized in ex-treme time bands. The least stable connections were founded in the actual time. It is shown that the image of a state is independent of the situation in which it is experienced. It is found that the images of mental states in the time continu-um “past-present-future” are characterized by different stability, intensity and content saturation, depending on the level of mental activity and state modality. The most stable in all time ranges are indicators of high levels of mental activity positive states images and negative states of low energy level.