The consciousness consists in awareness of its difference by the subject from other subjects of the rest of the world. Completely created scientific theories on this matter do not exist now.
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- Scientific literature on psychology and philosophy.
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1. The consciousness in psychology is understood as the mental phenomenon based on understanding by the person of itself as the subject of activity. As a result of consciousness the idea of the person of itself develops in the theory "I".
2. So S.L. Rubenstein wrote in the book "Fundamentals of the General Psychology" that, for example, the child realizes himself not at once. Within the first years of life he calls himself by name the same as he is called by people around. He at the beginning understands himself not as the independent subject and as an object in relation to other people.
3. The consciousness is not an initial reality which is inherent in the person since the birth. The consciousness is a development product. However it is worth noticing that consciousness at the baby appears as an identical rudiment. "I" at the child begin consciousness it develops approximately in three years when he begins to distinguish feelings which were caused by the outside world, and those feelings which were caused by own body. Such consciousness of own mental qualities and a self-assessment gain the greatest value at teenage age. As all components of consciousness are interconnected, development of one of them leads to modification of all system of consciousness.
4. Development of consciousness happens in several stages during human life. At the age of one year there is an opening "I". To separate results of own activity and the outside world the child already can by two-three years. The ability to estimate itself, that is a self-assessment, begins to be formed in seven years. The stage of active development of consciousness, the search "I" and own style occurs at teenage age. By the end of this period the main social and moral estimates are formed.
5. Formation of consciousness is influenced by several factors, namely, estimates of results of own activity, assessment of people around and own status in group of age-mates, a formula of the relations "I am an ideal" and "I - real".
6. According to V.S. Merlin's theory, it is possible to distinguish the system of social and moral estimates, awareness of own features of mentality, understanding "I" as the active beginning from consciousness components, awareness of own identity. These elements of consciousness are always interconnected with each other at the functional and genetic levels though their formation does not happen at the same time.