Abstract: In their research the authors focus on the regional aspect of personal-professional specification. They offer a general definition of the term 'regional specification' that reflects ethno-cultural, geographical and landscape peculiarities of corporate staff at the concrete level as some kind of an optimal structure of personal-professional qualities allowing an employee to perform his or her duties and to correspond to functional requirements of her or her profession. The authors analyze reginal specification as general and special qualities in verbal and cogitative, emotional-volitional, communicative and motivational spheres that constitute professional predictor modules. There are differences observed both in structures of personal qualities and systems of professional requirements. The authors also provide empirical data reflecting various forms of personal-professional specification under regional conditions. Specific regional features are proved through statistical procedures and criteria. The authors also apply procedures for defining statistically significant differences between groups in order to describe the main psychological indicators of the personnel in companies under research. By using the correlation analysis the authors also evaluate the relationship between experimental groups. As a result, the authors give the scientific and experimental substantiation of the term 'regional specifrication' that reflect ethno-cultural, geographical and landscape peculiarities of the staff. The authors clarify the structure of personal-professional qualities contributing to an efficient performance of labor functions in accordance with professional requirements in a particular region. They also prove and explain differences both in structures of personal qualities and systems of professional requirements discovered in the course of drawing mental graphs.The authors also view regional specification as a system of general and special qualities of the personnel in verbal and cogitative, emotional-volitional, communicative and motivational spheres that constitute professional predictor modules.

Abstract: In this article Noss analyzes the three components of the cognitive process: logics, semantics and affect. According to the author, the correlation of these elements of reasoning is the key to successful and adequate acquisition and digestion of knowledge. The logical and emotional components are interrelated and there is a complex oppositely directed nonlinear dependence between them which reflects individual features, peculiarities and contents of the stimulus and circumstances of the thinking process. The researcher provides empirical data obtained in different experimental groups and describing patterns of the five stages of human cogitation, peculiarities of the cognitive process and the mutual influence of the operational-logical and emotional-notional components. The methodology of the research is based on the comparison of different aspects of cognitive activity. The researcher uses psychosemantic analysis of cognitive activity and semantic differential as the main means of psychological research. The main conclusion made by the researcher is that the emotional-notional component of cognitive activity appears and develops as part of personal relations between cogitation actors. Having defined the features and genus species features of an object, relations and connections between notions, the conceptual status of an object is described. The emotional aspect of an object of cognition influences the cognitive process, too, as it creates a relevant motivational background which decreases the influence of the operational-logical component when the object has been prescribed a particular place in the system of relations with other objects, thus decreasing the emotional component of cognition as well. 
 

Abstract: The article draws the attention of psychologists and professiologists to the possibility of using the twin study method as a tool and model for confirming provisions of the concept of personal and professional specifications. It is assumed that the analysis of personal and behavioral characteristics of members of monozygotic twin pairs confirms the existence of a genetically stable personality structure corresponding to a particular system of professional conditions and requirements of professional activity. As an illustration the author presents the experimental results of the study of personal and behavioral characteristics of monozygotic parted and unparted twins. The author indicates methodological limitations in the dissemination of these findings and the need for comprehensive diagnostics of personnel through comparison, verification, and completion of the obtained experimental data and procedures. Based on the results of theoretical analysis and empirical tests, the author makes the conclusion about the presence of both natural and hereditary bases of professional orientation. The results of the study prove the author's concept of personal and professional specifications of personnel and the need for modeling it in order to improve the quality of psychological selection of the staff and supervision and assistance of employees at an organization.