Describe the research that has been done to determine when children develop a sense of self. At what age do children show a sharp increase in self-awareness?
What will be an ideal response?
The "rouge" test is where a child is held up to a mirror and the child's reaction to the reflection is noted. The child is then taken down from the mirror and a dot of rouge is placed on the child's face and again held up to the mirror. Children without self-awareness will touch the baby in the mirror but not their own face. Once children realize that the baby in the mirror is them, they will touch their own face to wipe off the rouge once they've seen it in the mirror. This begins to develop at 15–18 months and rises sharply between 21 and 24 months.
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