Content Introduction 1 Subject, tasks and methods of psychology. 2 Theories of personality development. Patterns of mental development 3 Physical and mental development of a child in preschool age 4 The development of a child in junior school age 5 Psychological peculiarities of adolescence 6 Psychology of early youth 7 Psychological features of an adult. The object and purpose of gerontopsychology 8 Subject, tasks and structure of social psychology 9 Methodology and methods of socio - psychological research 10 Personality and society. Socialization of a person 11 Psychological mechanisms of regulation of social behavior of an individual 12 Communication as a social - psychological phenomenon 13 Social psychology of a small group 14 Psychology of large groups and mass social processes 15 The main directions of applied research in social psychology