Value orientations of a modern teenager in the light of an associative experiment

Abstract

This article is dedicated to identify the image (portrait and character) of the modern teenager by
means of associative experiment. During the questening of students from different schools we got lots
of interesting information to create concpet «Teenager» . In the course of our research we are modeled
the core ,the near periphery and the long periphery of this concept. The task of our research is consideration of teenager with help of psycholinguistic experiment. In the course of the experiment, it was
revealed that the values of adolescents are formed depending on the attitudes of the society in which
the personality is growing up. The results of the survey showed that students’ reactions to values differ
in classes with Russian and Kazakh. The choice of this particular category for the experiment is due to
the possibility of regulating further educational activities in order to identify the main preferences of the
younger generation.