The seventh year of the child's life is a continuation of an extremely important period of child development, lasting from five to seven years. The last year is characterized by the continuation of the formation of psychological entities that appeared in a child in five years. However, the subsequent deployment of these new formations is the basis for creating psychological conditions that will serve the emergence of new directions and lines of development.
For the preschool aged (6-7 years), there are significant changes in the child's body. This is a certain stage of maturation. During this period, the cardiovascular and supportive-motor systems of the organism intensively develop and strengthen, small muscles develop, various sections of the central nervous system develop and differentiate.
Also for children of this age, certain psychological features of development are characteristic. They inherent in the development of various mental and cognitive mental processes, such as imagination, attention, speech, thinking, memory.
Attention. The child of preschool age is dominated by involuntary attention. And by the end of this period, there is a period of development of voluntary attention, when the child learns to direct it consciously and to keep some time on certain objects and objects.
Memory. By the end of the pre-school period, the child develops an arbitrary auditory and visual memory. One of the main roles in the organization of a variety of mental processes begins to play it memory.
Development of thinking. By the end of the preschool stage, the growth of visual-visual thinking accelerates and the process of development of logical thinking begins. This leads to the formation in the child of the ability to generalize, compare and classify, as well as the ability to determine the essential characteristics and properties of objects in the surrounding world.
The development of the imagination. Creative imagination develops towards the end of the pre-school period thanks to various games, concreteness and brightness of the impressions and images presented, unexpected associations.
Speech. By the end of the pre-school period, the child's vocabulary is greatly increased and there is the ability to use a variety of difficult-grammatical abilities in active speech.
At the age of six or seven years of the child's activity there is emotionality and the importance of emotional reactions increases.
The formation of the personality, like the mental state of the child, towards the end of the pre-school period is interrelated with the development of self-consciousness. Children of 6-7 years are gradually forming a self-assessment, which depends on the realization of how successful its activity is, how successful its peers are, as educators and other surrounding people assess it. The child can already be aware of himself, as well as his position, which he occupies in various collectives - the family, among peers, etc.
Children older than this age can already reflect, that is, aware of the social "I" and on this basis create internal positions.
One of the most important new formations in the process of development of the personal and mental sphere of a child aged 6-7 years is subordination of motives, then such motives as "I can", "I must" gradually more and more predominate over "I want".
Also at this age, the desire for self-assertion in such areas of activity that are connected with public evaluation increases.
Gradually, the child's awareness of his "I" and the formation of internal positions on this basis towards the beginning of school age leads to the emergence of new aspirations and needs. This is the reason that the game, which was the primary activity of the child during the preschool period, gradually surrenders its position in this capacity, is no longer able to fully satisfy it. There is a growing need to go beyond the usual way of life and to participate in socially significant activities, that is, another social position is adopted, which is usually called the "schoolchild's position," which is one of the most important results and characteristics of the mental and personal growth of pre-school children.