Neuropsychological principles of brain functioning and regularities of its system functioning in the process of studying the mechanisms of formation of imaginative thinking are considered. It is shown that the interaction of the brain hemispheres determines different models of image formation. Energy-informational interaction associated with the functioning of higher mental functions is illustrated by a number of examples, including the formation of prayer and poetic images. A schematic representation of cognitive semiosis in the process of understanding the integral image as a resource of semiotic operations is presented.

The history of the development of the system-methodological basis of the psychological theory of activity is analyzed. The system features and limitations of the canonical form of the psychological theory of activity and its main variants are given. The article considers the prospects for the development of the conceptual base of the activity approach within the framework of a new system basis, which includes ideas about cyclic self-organization, taking into account the constructional properties of the psyche and brain and related categories of physics.

The possible forms of control of students ' progress and evaluation means of mastering different sections of academic disciplines are considered. A variant of the crossword for the current knowledge control in LMS Moodle is given. Statistical indicators for empirical validation of reliability and constructed texts are substantiated.

A review of domestic and foreign publications related to the analysis and classification of various forms of plagiarism and academic fraud in order to prevent them was carried out. The results of an empirical study of students ' attitude to plagiarism and an analysis of their motivation for educational activities are presented. Conclusions are made in accordance with the main content areas of the analysis and prospects for further research are outlined.

Modern digital technologies that are used by domestic and foreign companies in personnel management and business processes are considered. Economic and psychological trends related to HR automation, HR Analytics, HR marketing, Smart recruitment and e-learning are highlighted. The results of digitalization of HR processes in leading domestic and foreign companies are presented, and the possibility of diagnosing changes in business processes under the influence of external and internal factors is justified.

The article deals with the issues of design in psychological and pedagogical planning. It is noted that the design methodology is based on a systematic approach to the study and modeling of compound multi-component, complex objects. The article is devoted to the problems of psychological and pedagogical planning, including the planning of educational lesson. The main aspects of pedagogical planning are considered: psychological and pedagogical sense, the place of planning in the structure of psychological analysis of educational lesson (lesson).

The ergonomic support problem of reliability for the “driver-motor car-traffic situation” system is considered. Factors defining the success in selection and training drivers at driving schools are revealed. A correlation interconnection between a level of mental operation development and a training success at driving schools is proved empirically.

The necessity of unification of the form of review in the process of decision-making on the publication of articles in scientific journals is explained. The experience of peer review of manuscripts in domestic scientific journals is summarized. The criteria for assessing the quality of scientific articles, a unified form of review-questionnaire, as well as examples of its application are proposed.

The analysis of functioning a power system from the point of view of the efficiency of trouble-free operation and a human factor impact upon the safety of system functioning is carried out. The simulator of the morphological synthesis of a training-imitation complex is presented for modeling breakdown and uncommon working modes is presented. There is offered a structure of the adaptive information interaction system (hybrid intelligence) of an operator with the object of control.