Annotation: The article is devoted to the consideration of the level of conflict interaction of spouses at different stages of marriage experience. The results of the investigation of the conflictness of the marriage partners at different stages of family life. The authors describe the nature of the interaction of the spouses, as well as a comparative study of the level of conflict between the groups of respondents with different marriage experience.

Annotation: This article deals with the features of cognitive activity of children. The levels, parts, types, principles of cognitive activity are shown. The article describes the cognitive interest as an important personality characteristic of a schoolchild, as an integral cognitive – emotional attitude of a schoolchild to learning.

Annotation: In this article the authors considers the emerging problem of social adaptation of senior citizens, important both for the modern psychology and pedagogy. In the article the analysis of socio-psychological literature on the social adaptation of elderly people, as well as an attempt to examine the degree of adaptation of the elderly people in the post labour period. There are the results of a study of social adaptation, which show that senior citizens are characterized by varying degrees of adaptation in the post labour period.

Annotation: The article deals with the problems of psychological and pedagogical support of students, the stages, the reasons for the first course in the period of their adaptation to college education. In the article there are specified the notions of psychological and pedagogical support, basic conditions of using support for successful adaptation of freshmen, there are also given methods on research of problems of students’ adaptation. The article deals with capabilities of taking into account individual psychological characteristics of freshmen in adaption to conditions of higher the college education institution. In the work there are also shown the characteristics of key concepts of freshmen adaptation for receiving professional education from the position of psychological, pedagogical and social support. Thus, the following notions are referred to the social position in freshmen support: obtaining a different status – a student status, relative freedom in choosing training trajectory, extension of communication and group interaction, a neutral position of teachers with respect to students, the educational environment and the comfort of psychological atmosphere for successful adaptation.