Self-Recognition and Embarrassment :: essays research papers

Self-Recognition and EmbarrassmentOur groups designate was to measure self-recognition and embarrassment in children ages 1-3. We had 3 children to work with, Arika was 9 months, Charlotte was 17 months and Lydia was 28 months old. We preformed 3 tasks on these children. The first was the Over praise situation. Secondly, we did the Mirror situation and last we did the Request to dance situation. Our findings in these situations lead us to some conclusions about self-awareness and feeling embarrassed.The act we used was a fairly simple one, but it needed to be followed to get accurate results. The first task we did was the Overcompliment situation. With the hidden video camera running, we compete with the children for a few minutes so they could get as used to us as they would in that short period of time. Then we proceeded to give them compliment after compliment, for example you are so pretty, good job, youre doing great. After doing this you should feel a little embarrassed you rself. This task is used to see how the child reacts to the barrage of compliments. If they detainment playing as they were, make eye contact periodically, they most likely werent embarrassed. But if they keep their head down away from the experimenter or have a silly, self-conscious smile they probably are embarrassed. Our first Overcompliment experiment was with Charlotte. She showed no reaction to Kellie loose her numerous compliments she just played without even looking at her. This does not necessarily mean that Charlotte had no feelings about Kellies compliments in fact it probably means that she was more embarrassed than anything. When it was Lydias turn to go Mia and I watched her play for a few minutes, then began the onslaught of compliments. Lydia didnt even acknowledge the fact that we were speaking to her. I think she did realize that we were saying how good she was doing and because of that she played more aggressively. She never looked at either of us, she never loo ked to her mother for comfort or to see why these people were saying these things to her, she just kept playing with her trains. Table 1Age in months answer21-24 of all children20It was common, but not expected 15-18 of all children9-12No children reactedThe second task was the mirror situation. This experiment was first done by R. capital of The Netherlands in 1972 on Chimpanzees.