Cognitive aspects of role-taking in children1

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Biological and Cognitive Bases of Moral Functioning

“…Piaget's (1932;Piaget and Inhelder, 1956) early work in the area suggested that early signs of role-taking did not appear until age 7, and did not exist in mature form until 9-11 years of age. Some later studies seemed to support this general conclusion (e.g., Feffer and Gourevitch, 1960). More recent work (Borke, 1971;Selman, 1971;Masangkay et al, 1974;Urberg and Docherty, 1976;Mossier et al, 1976), however, has challenged Piaget's timetable.…”

A Pilot Investigation of the Effects of Training Techniques Designed to Accelerate Children's Acquisition of Conservation of Discontinuous Quantity

“…Note: Tests 40 and 42 are a modification of the work of Feffer and Gourevitch (1) and are used to measure egocentrism in social interaction. They are predicated on the assumption that the ability to portray and characterize people other than oneself indicates social decentering.…”

Development of Role-Taking Ability

“…The concept has been well established in a cognitive-structural framework, analyzing qualitatively different, age-related, and sequentially ordered forms of role-taking (De Vries, 1970;Selman, a, b, 1973. While some research has been done in relating the role-taking construct to other dimensions of development -cogni tive (Feffer and Gourevitch, 1960;Turnure, 1975), social-cognitive (especially moral development ;Selman, 1973;Stuart, 1967), and behavioral (Chandler, 1972(Chandler, , 1973Rubin, 1973Rubin, , 1976) -until now, we only speculate about the social antecedents of role-taking development.…”

“…Role-taking can be viewed as one aspect of social competence. Its positive correlation with intelligence has been variously shown (Feffer and Gourevitch, 1960;Wolfe, 1963;Selman, 1971a).…”