The means of behavior regulation in pre-schoolers

The construction and regulation of child behavior depends on the means ( the structure which unites cultural tools and actions) used by a child in the process of the orientation in reality. The analysis of anticipation of fairy-tales events by 5-6 years old children makes it possible to find three main means, three structures of the orientation. They are the normative-stabilized structure (the use of the norms), the sense-formative structure (the construction of child's personal position regarding reality) and dialectical-transformative structure (the operations with opposites).