ВПЛИВ СОЦІАЛЬНИХ УЯВЛЕНЬ СТУДЕНТІВ НА СТВОРЕННЯ ОБРАЗУ МАЙБУТНЬОЇ ПРОФЕСІЇ ПСИХОЛОГА
An analysis of social representations by scientists from different points of view is carried out. The views on the content and structural components of social representations and their influence on the views about the future profession from students-psychologists are highlighted. The influence of social representations on the peculiarities of the formation of their professional self-consciousness is analyzed. The functions of social representations that influence the image of the profession of a psychologist are revealed. The idea is based on the fact that external social (conditions of study, the direction of training of specialists) and internal (individual-characterological features of an individual) factors influence on social representations. The results of the surveyed by us students-psychologists were analyzed, which highlighted the opinion that the social representations are influenced by: the need for knowledge of social psychology, the development of personal individual qualities, general and social intelligence, the possession of communicative skills, the ability to navigate social events. The opinion that the corrective and training work on developing social representations of students will enable the flow of the specifics of images and create adequate ideas about the profession of a psychologist.