This paper presents an empirical study on the interrelationship between levels of regulatory functions development in preschool children and the quality of preschool education.The study involved 31 groups of preschool children in Moscow (657 children aged 5—6 years).ECERS-R scales and the NEPSY-II battery were used.A number of significant correlations was revealed between such components of regulatory functions as verbal working memory, visual-spatial working memory, inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility and various environmental factors.The paper stresses the importance of creating conditions for recreation and relaxation as well as for the development of gross motor skills, and highlights the significance of group interaction for the development of regulatory functions in children.

This article covers a number of thesis concerning actual problematic of creative and productive thinking examination. Brief analysis of the concept of creative thinking in the context of structural dialectical thinking is provided as well. Notions of structure and multidimensionality are discussed when applied to examination of intellectual creation. New concept is introduced in the framework of dialectical thinking theory – this is structural flexibility of thinking (SFT). Also one can find results of the study dedicated to experimental examination of the interconnection between dialectical thinking and SFT (through usage of authorial diagnostic tools). The conclusion indicates that the presence of ability to perform dialectical transformations determines the ability to “turn the problem into an opportunity” by means of mental putting of the problematic object to the context of different structural interconnections.