Read the section discussing the Developing Sense of Self in infants carefully
Read the section discussing the Developing Sense of Self in infants carefully. Pay particular attention to the visual self-recognition tests where moms put a dot of rouge on their child’s nose.
Explain how this picture might represent a modern-day Rouge Test. (I’m sure you’re familiar with the ability to add filters to pictures in Snapchat and other apps on cell phones.)
By touching their own face and body, or by kicking and grabbing things, they start to enjoy the influence of their actions on the world. But it is not until children approach their second birthday that they start to develop a sense of self and are able to reflect on themselves from the perspective of somebody else.
