Yu. Babaeva

A. Voiskounsky

The differcnliaiion of the direct and indirect influences of information technology on mental activity as well as areas of such influences were made from the theoretical and methodological positions. The essential changes in personality are observed both in the case of direct and indirect influences. The mechanisms of transformations, e.g. the identification and assimilation, reversion (regress to earlier forms of mental activity), atrophy" of needless mental functions are described. The conflicts among the mental functions formed earlier and functions newly acquired are analyzed.