V monografii privoditsya obshchaya kharakteristika psikhologicheskikh bar'erov v uchebnoy deyatel'nosti, podcherkivaetsya spetsifika kognitivnykh bar'erov. Raskryvaetsya vliyanie psikhologicheskikh bar'erov na vypolnyaemuyu deyatel'nost', delaetsya aktsent na resursakh ikh konstruktivnogo preodoleniya. Rassmatrivayutsya vozmozhnosti diagnostiki psikhologicheskikh bar'erov v uchebnoy deyatel'nosti, podcherkivayutsya ikh resursosberegayushchie vozmozhnosti. Adresuetsya prepodavatelyam i studentam psikhologo-pedagogicheskikh spetsial'nostey, slushatelyam institutov povysheniya kvalifikatsii rabotnikov obrazovaniya.