How does the development of self-understanding change from early childhood to middle and late childhood?
What will be an ideal response?
Students' answers may vary. Use of psychological characteristics and traits to describe the self: In middle and late childhood, especially from 8 to 11 years of age, children increasingly describe themselves with psychological characteristics and traits in contrast to the more concrete self-descriptions of younger children.
Recognition of social aspects of self: Children become more likely to recognize social aspects of the self during elementary school years. These include references to social groups in their self-descriptions.
Increasing reference to social comparison: Children's self-understanding in the elementary school years also includes increasing reference to social comparison. At this point in development, children are more likely to distinguish themselves from others in comparative rather than absolute terms.
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