Understanding Others
Levels of Social Perspective Taking
Peers
Adolescent Crowd Descriptions
Peer Relations
100
Social cognition
What is the ability children have to think about their social world?
100
3 to 6 years
What is the age range pertaining to Level 0: Undifferentiated and egocentric perspective taking?
100
Prejudices
What are formed when children develop a negative view of others based on their race or ethnicity?
100
Populars
What is the group that has many friends, are well known, look good and attend social events?
100
Homophobia
What is the irrational fear and hatred of homosexuals?
200
Theories of mind
What is the naïve psychological theories children have about the causes of human behavior?
200
12 years on
What is the age range for Level 4: In-depth perspective taking?
200
Peer
What is the term that refers to a child of equal age or maturity?
200
Loners
What is the group that feels alone, are not accepted by others and do not conform?
200
Neglected peers
What is the name of the students who are neither popular nor rejected by their peers?
300
False belief
What is a social situation that present difficulties for young children because they are not able to understand that another person will act on beliefs that differ from their own?
300
Level 1
What is the level reached from ages 5 to 9 that pertains to differentiated perspective taking?
300
Peers
Who also have an important influence on school success?
300
Jocks
What is the name of the group who like sports and participate in physical activities?
300
Peer popularity
What is social competence?
400
Perspective-taking skills
What is the ability to imagine what others may be thinking and feeling?
400
Mutual perspective taking
What is Level 3?
400
Cliques
What are small peer groups?
400
Brains
What is the name of the group who get good grades, are smart, and have good academic skills?
400
Aggression
What is behavior that is intentionally aimed at harming or injuring another person?
500
Selman and colleagues
Who found there was developmental progression in children's role-taking skills from preschool to early adolescence?
500
Reciprocal perspective taking
What is Level 2?
500
Crowds
What are the largest adolescent groups?
500
Normals
What is the name of the group who are average?
500
Bullying behavior
What behavior is embarrassing people, hitting, destroying property, ridiculing, and so on?