Question

Who is Robert Selman?

•What does he think about perspective taking development?

•Include a full description of his model

•Explain how a move from one stage of his model to another is possible because of cognitive development.

•Use Piaget’s stages to illustrate how moves from Piaget’s earlier stages to formal ops stage explain how perspective taking advances are possible.

Answer 1

Robert Selman is an American born educational psychologist and perspective taking theorist, who specializes in adolescent social development.

> He believed that role taking play in children promotes a more mature social understanding by teaching children to take on the roles if others, allowing them to uderstand that different people can have differing perspectives.

> In piaget's view, early cognitive development involves processes based upon actions and later progresses to changes in mental operations.

PIAGET'S STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT:

1. The sensorimotor stage ( birth to age 2 )

> Infants knows the world through their movements and sensations.

2. The preoperational stage (age 2-7)

> Children begin to think symbolically and learn to use words and pictures to represent objects.

3. The concrete operational stage (age 7-11)

> During this stage, children begin to thinking logically about concrete events.

4. The formal operational stage (12 and beyond)

> At this stage, the adolescent or young adult begins to think abstractly and reason about hypothetical problems.

CONCLUSION

His theory focuses not only on understanding how children acquire knowledge, but also on understanding the nature of intelligence.