The stage of “adolescence” as a transitional age involves many physiological changes. At this time, puberty occurs, accompanied by a “hormonal storm.” However, the difficulties that a person experiences during adolescence relate not only to the emerging sexual sphere. The difficulties of this period are caused, in addition to physiological ones, by rapidly making themselves felt by psychological changes. The criterion for the transition to the teenage stage is the feeling of adulthood. Despite the emergence of this feeling, the teenager does not yet have sufficient independence and development to be an adult in the social sense. The teenager understands this, which gives rise to a decrease in self-confidence. With the onset of adolescence (11-12 years old) comes the time of struggle for autonomy. The teenager strives to free himself, to become independent from those on whom he depends to a greater extent. The attitude towards parents and teachers at this stage turns out to be consumerist. The teenager compares the extent to which adults show the same requirements for themselves and for him. The central place at the stage of adolescence is occupied by communication with peers. It is the key to a person’s psychosocial development during this period. Despite the fact that communication with peers in adolescents replaces communication with parents, it cannot be said that adolescents thus make a choice not in favor of their parents. The orientation of adolescents towards their peers is not associated with opposition to parental values ​​and attitudes, but with the desire of adolescents, while maintaining common beliefs with their parents, to receive emotional autonomy from them. Therefore, the leading activity of the teenage stage is communication with peers. Another significant feature of adolescence is the actualization of the need to belong to a group. In a group, teenagers have the opportunity to experience the “sense of We,” which is an important stage on the path to subsequent self-determination of a person at the stage of adolescence [Developmental psychology and developmental psychology/A.K. Bolotova, O.N. Molchanova, 2012]. Thus, a teenager communicates in a group, and also has separate communication with friends. The first develops the ability to be a leader and a subordinate, to act together to achieve the group’s tasks. The second develops a sense of psychological intimacy, trust, closeness. The group is the most important support for a teenager, but at the same time it places serious demands on him both in terms of compliance with group values ​​and behavior. Despite this pressure from the group, it is very important for a teenager to be accepted into the group he desires and to have status and authority in it. Because of this, adolescents experience a conformity reaction—the desire to be like other members of the group. This is manifested in the same clothes, manner of speech, hobbies, etc. [Developmental psychology and age psychology / A.K. Bolotova, O.N. Molchanova, 2012] The attitude of adolescents to educational activities is often ambivalent, paradoxical. On the one hand, motivation As a rule, their academic performance is significantly reduced. Since interest in the outside world, in peers, increases, which replaces interest in educational activities. Observing adults, teenagers often come to the conclusion that the value of school knowledge is exaggerated and its presence is not a criterion for the adulthood that a teenager strives for. On the other hand, the teenage stage is the most important, sensitive for the formation in a person of a craving for self-improvement and self-education, which is not supported by external incentives in the form of control from the school and parents. In other words, a teenager can reach a level of mature educational motivation, when learning can become valuable in itself or as a tool for realizing life tasks [E.A. Kabanchenko, Psychological features of the development of values ​​in adolescence]. At the stage of adolescence, cognitive skills are actively improved person, self-criticism and.