List and describe the five stages of perspective taking, according to Robert Selman. Make sure that your answer includes the approximate ages of each of these stages

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

The answer to this question is found in Table 7.01, as follows:
(1) The undifferentiated stage (3 to 6 years of age) – Children know that they and others can have different thoughts and feelings but they may confuse the two.
(2) The social-informational stage (4 to 9 years of age) – Children know that perspectives differ because people have access to different information.
(3) The self-reflective stage (7 to 12 years of age) – Children can step into another's shoes and view themselves as others do; they know that others can do the same
(4) The third-person stage (10 to 15 years of age) – Children can step outside of the immediate situation to see how they and another person are viewed by a third person.
(5) The societal stage (14 years to adult) – Adolescents realize that a third-person perspective is influenced by broader personal, social, and cultural contexts.
* If desired, an instructor can increase the challenge of this question by asking the student to provide a real-life or hypothetical example of each stage.