Abstract
The article presents the results of an empirical study of the influence of creative abilities on the cognitive-activity style of students. In the course of the study, a review of the scientific literature was made and the relevance of the topic was shown. This study was conducted on 80 Kazakh-speaking university students in the city of Almaty. In the course of the study, the methods of Diagnostics of Personal Creativity (F. Williams, modification: E.E. Tunick) and the Study of Cognitive-Activity Style (L. Rebecca; α = 0.927) were used. The α-Cronbach coefficient of the method Diagnostics of Personal Creativity, used for the first time in the Kazakh language, is determined to be 0.7 and its reliability has been statistically proven. As a result of the correlation analysis, direct positive relationships were found between such parameters of creative abilities as risk taking, curiosity, complexity and imagination, and types of cognitive-activity style. Also, a cognitive-activity style model was determined for each scale by using the Kruskal- Wallace criterion. The results of the study can be used by educational psychologists and researchers when working with Kazakh-speaking respondents.