Abstract:

The paper is presented the research about influence of computer games on the cognitive abilities.
The development of informational society, being based on creation and wide use of information-communicational technologies in all spheres of social life, became the subject of the broadening circle of researches. Computerization is not only the stage of scientific and technical progress, but it is also a new, higher level of civilization on the whole, which brings the substantial changes both in human activity and in his personal characteristics.
The development of information technologies goes very fast, concerning all spheres of human life, including a new cultural and historical environment arises, the main criterion of which is computerization of human vital functions and transformation of computer in the forming element of culture. Computer activity, as a new type of the indirect activity, reconstructs its subject’s consciousness, subject of cognition and subject of intercourse. Consequently, human perception and awareness of the world, processes of memory, thoughts, imaginations which are armed and simultaneously limited by the concrete-historical system of values, inherent to the certain social community, one or another culture (to the culture of computerization), changes.
The problem of psychical changes in the conditions of global informatization of the society is discussed in presented paper.

Keywords:

Internet-activity, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology of memory.