Intellectual Task as a Means of Development of Skills

This article deals with some aspects of system and genetic approach to the study of intellectual activity of human's inner world (it is developed in the Scientific School of Academician of the Russian Academy of Education Vladimir Dmitrievich Shadrikov). Cognitive tasks and intelligence operations are considered as universal means of cognition and as operating mechanisms of general abilities. Some of the research results of cognitive actions contained in the training material are discussed in the advisory aspect. New classification of cognitive tasks with an emphasis on the cognitive effects of different levels of integration allow considering intellectual task as a means of skills developing.