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Post by pantea on Oct 20, 2017 14:21:48 GMT
The rouge test is used to try to determine when a child has developed self-awareness. To determine self in infants, the experimenters Lewis & Brooks applied a rouge (red) dot to the infant’s noses and placed them in front of a mirror. The test is to see if the baby’s touch their own nose or the nose in the mirror. They found out that babies between 9 and 12 months never touched their own noses but by 21 months, about 75% of children did so. Self-awareness therefore appears to begin about half way through a child’s second year. But just because an infant did not recognize the red dot does not mean that they aren’t aware of him or her self. Examining self- awareness in children is difficult because their mastery of language lags behind their conceptual development. This is why researchers moved on to animal self-recognition studies. Self-awareness is not unique to humans as it is to animals so therefore in humans it is not 100% reliable or valid.
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