?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Children's+Understanding+of+the+Relation+Between+Delayed+Video+Representation+and+Current+Reality%3A+A+Test+for+self-awareness%3F&rft.creator=Suddendorf%2C+Thomas&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Comparative+Psychology&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.subject=Evolutionary+Psychology&rft.description=While+children+from+about+18+months+on+can+use+a+mirror+to+show+self-recognition+through+the+retrieval+of+a+covertly+placed+mark+from+their+forehead%2C+Povinelli%2C+Landau%2C+and+Perilloux+(1996)+showed+that+four-+but+not+two-year-olds+pass+a+similar+surprise-mark+test+involving+three-minute-old+videos+of+themselves.+The+authors+argued+that+this+marks+the+emergence+of+what+they+called+the+%22proper+self%22.+The+current+study+(n%3D40)+supported+the+claim+for+a+developmental+asynchrony+by+showing+that+three-+and+four-year-olds+who+fail+the+delayed+video+version+of+the+surprise-mark+task+pass+the+mirror+version.+However%2C+the+same+performance+pattern+was+observed+in+an+analogous+task+involving+the+introduction+of+an+object+in+the+room+that+was+visible+only+on+the+video+screen+(surprise-object+task).+Surprise-mark+and+surprise-object+tasks+were+positively+correlated.+Thus%2C+young+children%C2%92s+problems+seem+to+reflect+general+difficulties+in+reasoning+from+the+unexpected+information+in+the+video+to+the+current+situation%2C+rather+than+particular+deficits+in+self-awareness.&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F726%2F1%2Fselfawareness.html&rft.identifier=++Suddendorf%2C+Thomas++(1997)+Children's+Understanding+of+the+Relation+Between+Delayed+Video+Representation+and+Current+Reality%3A+A+Test+for+self-awareness%3F++%5BPreprint%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F726%2F