Abstract
This paper is concerned with the search for a cognitive-developmental sequence of self-recognition behaviors in infancy. In order to shed some light on the conflicting results reported in the literature, the authors try to evaluate the role of the structuration of the spatial field in the order of acquisition of two specific behaviors, namely, self-recognition and the reactions to the mirror image of an object. Fifty infants, between the ages of 6 and 30 months and divided into five equal age groups, were administrated five self-recognition tasks. The results indicate that the predicted sequence formed an almost perfect scale and that the divergent findings which have been reported cannot be attributed to a spatial factor.
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