The lowest outcomes turned out to be related to the reflexive component (whereas with teachers and psychologists this component is very important for initiative formation in the next, upcoming work). Preschoolers found it difficult to correctly indicate the emotions experienced during the activity, the overall impression is often reduced to a vague description - "it was interesting" or "it was not interesting". The latter comment, though, was mostly related to the fact that the children had encountered some difficulties during their work and had been Eugeniya V. Korotaeva and Anastasiya V. Svyattseva / Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 233 ( 2016 ) 280 – 286 285 unable to achieve the desired result. Self-assessment of their own work was largely overestimated, while in assessing others the children were giving positive remarks with the help of adults’ prompts ("How did Katya help us?", etc.)