Can
Visual Feedback Effect Perspective-Taking Behavior in Young Children?
M. Koyasu |
Three
experiments were conducted, which focused on the ability of young
children to infer another's view when they were asked to put toy
animals on the table facing a camera opposite them. In Experiment
1, with 92 young children (4-, 5-, and 6- year-olds), two kinds of
egocentric responses were found; egocentric response for the front-back
and for the right-left relationships. In experiment 2, with fifty-six
5- year-old kindergarteners, a video feedback training procedure
was introduced. The training was successful in improving the egocentrism
for the front-back and the right-left relationships, but in the latter
there remained the possibility that the successful subjects had learned
the strategy of replacing the left-hand animal with the right-hand
one to get the correct answer. In experiment 3, with 64 kindergarteners
(5-year-olds and 6-year-olds), a feedback procedure using a Polaroid
camera was found less effective, because the percentages of self-correction
after the feedback were very low.
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