THE ROLE OF MENTAL OPERATIONS WHILE MEMORIZING.

The article is devoted to studying mental operations while solving memorization task. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is a theory of abilities (V.D. Shadrikov). Intellectual activity deployment method was used for qualitative analysis of participants‘ mental activity when finding adequate mental operations. To program the experiment, we used the SR Research platform for building experiments in the EyeLink 1000 Plus. An empirical fact, obtained from the results of the first stage was that majority of the subjects (65 %) didn‘t use mental operations. The participants who used mental operations (35%) when giving self-reports did not report that they used mental operation but instead mentioned the activities they performed. Furthermore, when analyzing eye tracking data we got overall the same patterns as described in the self-reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]