Specifics of thinking operations of primary school students in the context of digitalization

Abstract

The article presents the results of the theoretical and empirical stages of the study, the purpose of which was a retrospective analysis of the operations of verbal-logical thinking of primary school students with normative development based on data for 2015, 2020 and 2025. The materials of the article reveal the decisive influence of digitalization on the genesis of higher mental functions, in particular, on thinking. It was revealed that the features of the verbal-logical thinking operations of primary school students in the three studied cohorts have predominantly invariant characteristics, these include the level of awareness and the ability to formulate conclusions (with decreasing dynamics). A significant decrease in the indicators of such thinking operations as classification and generalization was also established. The results obtained reveal a new phenomenon designated as “digital ontogenesis”.