The task of pedagogical universities is to teach students to meet the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard of basic general Education, i.e. the formation of a scientific view of the world among students. For current students competent to work productively in this direction, it is necessary to foster their scientific world mindset of the ways of its formation. The scientific mindset, according to the Standard, is formed on the basis of possession of intersubject concepts, as well as cause-and-effect relationships.