TY - JOUR
T1 - Young children's use of a delayed video representation to solve a retrieval problem pertaining to self
AU - Skouteris, Helen
AU - Spataro, Josie
AU - Lazaridis, Mary
PY - 2006/9/1
Y1 - 2006/9/1
N2 - The experiments reported here were concerned with the development of delayed self-recognition. Children were videotaped playing a game and were marked covertly with a sticker on their forehead while doing so. The findings, of both a cross-sectional sample and a prospective longitudinal one, revealed that 3- but not 2.5-year-old children reached to remove this sticker reliably during video playback only after they had been trained to use the video to guide their search for an object that was not directly visible to the unaided eye. It appears that by 3 years of age children understand that their briefly delayed self video-representation is related to their present self. In contrast, while 2.5-year-olds can use delayed video information to locate objects in space that cannot be seen by the unaided eye, they cannot use this type of information to locale an object that pertains to a part of self that is not directly visible, such as a sticker on one's hair. The findings are discussed in terms of the emergence of an extended sense of self.
AB - The experiments reported here were concerned with the development of delayed self-recognition. Children were videotaped playing a game and were marked covertly with a sticker on their forehead while doing so. The findings, of both a cross-sectional sample and a prospective longitudinal one, revealed that 3- but not 2.5-year-old children reached to remove this sticker reliably during video playback only after they had been trained to use the video to guide their search for an object that was not directly visible to the unaided eye. It appears that by 3 years of age children understand that their briefly delayed self video-representation is related to their present self. In contrast, while 2.5-year-olds can use delayed video information to locate objects in space that cannot be seen by the unaided eye, they cannot use this type of information to locale an object that pertains to a part of self that is not directly visible, such as a sticker on one's hair. The findings are discussed in terms of the emergence of an extended sense of self.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00518.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00518.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 16911453
AN - SCOPUS:33746844063
VL - 9
SP - 505
EP - 517
JO - Developmental Science
JF - Developmental Science
SN - 1363-755X
IS - 5
ER -