Relation of Age to Children's Egocentric and Cooperative Communication

Alvy, Kerby T.

doi:10.1080/00221325.1968.10533802

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“…Six-, eight-, and eleven-year-olds, for example, were tested in a communica tive egocentrism task in which assuming another person's viewpoint was essential (Alvy, 1968). The members of a pair were separated by an opaque screen; one subject selected from a set of pictures the one being described to him by the other child.…”

Section: Cognitive Theory Egocentrism and Decentrationmentioning

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Empathy: Historic and Current Conceptualizations, Measurement, and a Cognitive Theoretical Perspective

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Madle²

1975

Human Development

166

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A selective review of various conceptual positions within a historic framework is used to address four issues: whether an empathic response is an understanding or sharing of affect; whether an empathic response is a response to an object, another’s affect, and/or circumstance; which mechanisms explain empathy, and is self-other differentiation required by various definitions. This discussion is related to an examination of representative, predictive and situational measures. Comments are made regarding the reliability and construct validity of certain measures. The implications of this evidence for the use and the development of measures are advanced. A cognitive theoretical perspective is applied, in which variables that influence empathic learning are discussed with several applications of data, to assist in our understanding of empathy.

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Section: Cognitive Theory Egocentrism and Decentrationmentioning

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Empathy: Historic and Current Conceptualizations, Measurement, and a Cognitive Theoretical Perspective

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Madle²

1975

Human Development

166

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“…These children essentially cannot place themselves at another's perspective and, therefore, cannot anticipate how others will react to what they say or do. Consequently, egocentric children may become unpopular from expressing self-centered behaviors that their peer groups view as unacceptable.Several investigators (Alvy, 1968;Sullivan, 1967;Weinheimer, 1972) have found that egocentrism decreases with age. Rubin (1972, 1973) observed that popularity and communicative egocentrism were related in grades K, 1, and 2.…”

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The Relationship of Egocentrism and Measures of Socialization in a Sample of Elementary School Children

Karmos¹

1978

Educational and Psychological Measurement

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This paper is about egocentrism and its relationship to certain socialization variables. The 219 subjects in grades I through 5 were from two rural communities in southern Illinois. It was expected that the study would support Piaget's theory on egocentrism. The most significant results were the high correlations of egocentrism scores, of sociometric scores, and of teachers' ratings of popularity with observed playground behaviors. THE objective of this research was to investigate egocentrism and interrelationships among egocentrism, popularity, and certain playground behaviors for students in grades 1 through 5.Egocentrism is a construct which reflects an individual's inability to differentiate &dquo;self from that which is &dquo;not self.&dquo; Jean Piaget (1972) has observed that a child's universe is at first undifferentiated and that young children do not know that there is a universe of thought different and separate from their own. Their conceptions of reality are based only on their own points of view. These children essentially cannot place themselves at another's perspective and, therefore, cannot anticipate how others will react to what they say or do. Consequently, egocentric children may become unpopular from expressing self-centered behaviors that their peer groups view as unacceptable.Several investigators (Alvy, 1968;Sullivan, 1967;Weinheimer, 1972) have found that egocentrism decreases with age. Rubin (1972, 1973) observed that popularity and communicative egocentrism were related in grades K, 1, and 2. To the writer's knowledge, no one has previously

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“…Recent research findings showed that the communicative performance of pairs of children improves most striking between the ages of three and eight, although they continue to develop until well into adolescence when they begin to demonstrate the level of normal adult competence (Glucksberg et al, 1966;Gluksberg & Krauss, 1967;Flavell et al, 1968;Alvy, 1968;Murakoshi, 1973;Murakoshi & Murakoshi, 1974;Dickson, 1974). Success in a referential communication task depends upon the skills of both speaker and listener and the performance of a pair improves with the age of either the listener or the speaker (Glucksberg, Krauss, & Higgins, 1975).…”

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“…Flavell et al (1968) reported that communication skills of the speaker in phrasing messages suitable to the listener's needs improves with age. Content analysis of children's language in referential cornmunication suggests that younger children provide more unnecessary or non-discriminating information than do older children and that adequate encodings increase with age (Alvy, 1968;Murakoshi, 1973;Murakoshi & Murakoshi, 1974;Asano, 1973;Dickson, 1974).…”

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“…Thus one would expect that children would play a less active role as listeners when given ambiguous information than adults. Alvy (1968) analyzed transcripts of children's dyadic communication and found that listener requests for additional description increased between the ages of six and eleven. Dickson (1974) performed a similar analysis and found that specific questions asked by the listener increased between the ages of four and eight.…”

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Information Encoding and Requesting Skills in Four-to-Eight-Year Old Children

Oshima

1977

Jpn. Psychol. Res

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The development of information encoding skills and information requesting skills and the relationship between these two types of skills in referential communication tasks were investigated in children between the ages of four and eight. The children were first assigned as speakers with the experimenter acting as listener, and then assigned as listeners with the experimenter as speaker. While adequate encoding behavior improved rapidly with age during the preschool period (ages four to six), adequate requesting behavior did not show significant improvement until between the ages of six and eight. All children who requested specific information adequately as listeners also encoded adequate messages as speakers; however, not all children who encoded adequate messages could request specific information adequately.This suggests that adequate encoding is a prerequsite for adequate requesting.

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Relation of Age to Children's Egocentric and Cooperative Communication

Cited by 25 publications

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Empathy: Historic and Current Conceptualizations, Measurement, and a Cognitive Theoretical Perspective

Empathy: Historic and Current Conceptualizations, Measurement, and a Cognitive Theoretical Perspective

The Relationship of Egocentrism and Measures of Socialization in a Sample of Elementary School Children

Information Encoding and Requesting Skills in Four-to-Eight-Year Old Children

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