ANALYTICAL THINKING AS A FEATURE OF COMPETENCE OF IT SPECIALIST

The article considers professional competence of IT specialist. It studies activity of the specialist in the aspect of professional skills and features of analytical thinking. The author gives definitions to “critical thinking” and “divergent thinking”, makes an attempt to reveal competence in a specific kind of thinking. Multidimensional approach to the study of intelligence specifies the research of professional competence. The article provides a review of the Russian and foreign literature related to study of this particular feature, reflects the scientific areas which deal with research in psychology. The research work shows three basic features inherent to the competence of IT specialist; considers functional peculiarities of analytical thinking, purposes of its impact and development which form the specialist’s thinking. Specialist’s skills are considered to be the level of competence which traces the effectiveness of thinking. The main purpose of a professional analyst is to predict, as close as possible, and take into account the factors that might affect the outcome of the ultimate result. Creative thinking itself is also considered since it is no less important in the development. As a result of this work, a number of techniques are distinguished, which define the competence and methods for solving problems. The main focus is made on divergent thinking which includes a number of psychological functions of thinking that will be tracked in such a variety of criteria such as fluency, originality, sensitivity, and imagery. This feature of a competent specialist generates nonstandard thinking.