The article focuses on the processes of informatization, which entail drastic changes and new formations in the field of intellectual and emotional development of a modern student. The authors rightly point out that informatization as an urgent problem of our time, despite the age characteristics of schoolchildren, has an influencing effect on the formation of their personal qualities. In this regard, the idea sounds in relief: the life of adults and our children at school desks depends on information support and technological progress, which changes the way of life, motivation and worldview. The article provides an overview of research in this aspect and provides different points of view. The most relevant is the psychological security of the individual, when the informational impact determines human behavior indirectly, through the mental mechanisms of the brain. Informational influences achieve an effect when they change, restructure the psychological properties, states and behavioral patterns of a person. In conclusion, the authors come to the conclusion that the information
environment includes information flows and information influences of various kinds that a person experiences, is characterized by a set of dynamic factors that can have a direct or indirect, immediate or long-term impact on a person. It acts as a means by which society translates norms, values, attitudes and behavioral stereotypes to a person.