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Question 14

At a community primary school, teachers observe different social behaviours among the children:

  • Toby (aged 4) gets angry because his friend Maya does not want to play with the toy truck, believing that since he loves the truck, Maya must love it too.
  • Sunita (aged 7) understands that her classmate Chloe has a different view because Chloe did not see where the teacher hid the gold stars.
  • Marcus (aged 11) is able to referee a playground dispute by looking at the disagreement from the neutral perspective of an independent observer.

Discuss Selman's stages of perspective-taking as an explanation of children's social development. Refer to the observations of Toby, Sunita, and Marcus in your answer.

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Development of social cognition Questions

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Practise AQA A Level Psychology Development of social cognition with exam-style questions for A Level Psychology. 49 questions, matched to the AQA A Level Psychology (7182) specification and written in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.

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