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JoVE Science Education Developmental Psychology
The Rouge Test: Searching for a Sense of Self
  • 00:00Übersicht
  • 01:15Experimental Design
  • 01:58Running the Experiment
  • 03:07Representative Results
  • 03:40Applications
  • 04:50Summary

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Übersicht

ソース: ジュディス ・ Danovitch ・ ニクラス Noles 所-ルイビル大学

人間は多くの点で他の動物とは異なるが、人間を離れて設定する能力の 1 つは他の人々 を理解し、思考や感情が自分と合っていないときにも、自分の考えや感情をシミュレートする能力を高度です。科学的には、これらの能力は、心の理論と呼ばれます、このような理解は賛辞を与えること、グループでの作業、好意を求めて、嘘を伝えるような活動に必要です。

心の発達理論とは、人間は生まれていません。個人の他の人々 から分離されていることと異なる欲望、知識、自己の確立された感覚を必要と理解すること。したがって、自己認識と自己意識の開発、心の成熟した理論を開発するパスの初期の手順の一部です。子どもの概念発達が言語の習得を超えているために、自分の子供の新たな感覚を勉強しては複雑です。この問題を解決するために研究者は動物の自己認識を検出するために使用方法を借りて、幼児に適用。したがって、鏡とメイクのビット、ルージュ タスクが生まれた。

このビデオでは、研究者が異なった年齢で子供の自己認識をどのように評価するかを示します。

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8-12 ヶ月齢児の 1 つのグループと 1 つ 20-24 ヶ月古い子供のグループを募集します。このデモの目的の 1 つだけの子がテストされます。大きなサンプル サイズは、任意の実験を行う場合に推奨されます。 参加者が健康なことを確認、発達障害の歴史を持たず、通常の聴覚と視覚があります。 これらの年齢層の子どもたちが共同ですることができますのでうるさい (例えば</…

Ergebnisse

In order to have enough power to see significant developmental shifts, researchers would have to test approximately 20 children per age group, not including infants dropped due to fussiness. Children who have a sense of self-recognition and self-awareness usually touch the marker on their foreheads upon seeing it in a reflection. In contrast, children who fail the test usually ignore the mark or try to touch the reflection of the mark in the mirror. Researchers also report that some children who fail the task assume they are looking at another child in the room, and they touch the mirror or look behind it to find their new friend.

Only a small proportion of the 8- to 12-month-old infants usually pass the rouge test. The vast majority of the infants smile and play with the mirror, and many of them try to touch the mark in their reflection. In contrast, most 20- to 24-month-olds see their reflection and reach up to examine the mark on their forehead (Figure 1)

Figure 1
Figure 1: The proportion of children demonstrating self-awareness increases over time.

Applications and Summary

Most children begin to show the beginnings of self-awareness just before age two. At this time, they also begin to develop a rudimentary theory of mind, including the idea that different people have different preferences and desires. Building upon this basic understanding of others’ minds, children develop to represent how other people feel, leading to the development of complex comparative emotions, such as empathy, envy, and embarrassment, and pretend play, which allow them to practice their social skills even when they are alone. Children also learn to represent what other people see and know, and use this information to guide their social interactions, including knowing when and if they should try to help a friend or how to keep a surprise party a secret.2

Humans are amazing social creatures, but theory of mind is not unique to humans. Apes, elephants, dolphins, dogs, and even some birds have demonstrated the ability to recognize themselves using the rouge test. Encouraged by these findings, researchers have hypothesized that self-awareness is an important building block of social connectedness.

Referenzen

  1. Amsterdam, B. Mirror self-image reactions before age two. Developmental Psychobiology., 5, 297-305 (1972).
  2. Lewis, M., & Brooks-Gunn, J. Social cognition and the acquisition of self. New York: Plenum (1979).

Transkript

Individuals are not born with a fully developed theory of mind—the unique ability to understand others and simulate their thoughts and feelings, independently of self-desires and knowledge.

Self-recognition and self-awareness are necessary to develop a mature theory of mind. Therefore, studying a child’s emerging sense of self—like understanding one’s contribution when working amongst a group—is valuable to developmental research.

However, examining self-awareness in children is difficult because their mastery of language lags behind their conceptual development. This problem led researchers to adapt methods from animal self-recognition studies and develop the rouge task—an established technique to assess sense of self.

Using methods adapted by Beulah Amsterdam in the 1970s, this video demonstrates a simple approach for how to design and conduct the rouge test with a mirror and a bit of make-up, as well as how to analyze and interpret results on the progression of self-awareness in infants and young children before age 2.

In this experiment, children in two age groups—8- to 12-month-olds and 20- to 24-month-olds—are covertly marked on their forehead with brightly colored make-up and then observed while they look at their reflection in a mirror.

Children who only look at the mirror or who touch their reflection in the mirror fail the test, whereas those who see their reflection and touch the mark on their forehead pass.

In this case, the dependent variable is the number of children in each age group that touch the mark on their actual forehead.

It is hypothesized that the proportion of children who demonstrate self-awareness improves with age.

Before the experiment begins, verify access to a mirror large enough to clearly see the child’s face and a brightly colored and washable product, like lipstick that can be safely applied to their skin. Then, set up a video camera to capture the child’s entire reflection.

To begin, greet the parent and child and briefly inform them about the study. Then, put a small amount of lipstick on your finger.

Once inside, covertly apply lipstick onto the child’s forehead without them being able to see or feel it on their body.

Finally, video record this session: place the child in front of the mirror and observe them interacting with their reflection or physical mark.

Once the study is finished, assign two independent coders to watch the videos and designate whether each child passed or failed the test. Note that the judgments made by both coders should be compared by determining the inter-rater reliability estimate using Cohen’s kappa.

After all of the videos have been scored, generate the proportion of children that passed and failed in each age group, and use non-parametric statistics to determine if any age group differences exist.

Notice that only a small percentage of 8- to 12-month-old infants passed the test. In contrast, over 70% of 20- to 24-month-olds saw their reflection and reached up to examine the mark on their forehead, demonstrating self-awareness.

Now that you are familiar with designing a psychology experiment to investigate children’s self-awareness at a very young age, you can apply this procedure to answer additional questions regarding the normal development of children’s understanding of self and others.

As children develop self-awareness and a basic theory of mind, they begin to understand how other people feel, leading to the emergence of complex behaviors and emotions, including empathy.

Children also learn how to represent what other people know and use this information to guide their own social interactions—such as knowing if and when to keep a surprise party a secret.

In addition, children develop the ability to engage in pretend play, which allows them to practice their social skills, even when they are alone.

Before the self-concept studies were conducted in infants, Gordon Gallup showed that chimpanzees passed the rouge test. Thus, self-awareness is not unique to humans, as many social animals from elephants to birds have demonstrated the ability to relate to others in complex social situations.

You’ve just watched JoVE’s investigation into how children’s self-awareness develops over time. Now you should have a good understanding of how to design and conduct the experiment, and finally how to analyze and interpret the results.

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JoVE Science Education Database. Education. The Rouge Test: Searching for a Sense of Self. JoVE, Cambridge, MA, (2023).