00:07 - 00:08 | Woman: Who's that in the mirror? |
00:10 - 00:17 | Narrator: This is known as a mirror self-recognition test. Which may offer clues about the development of self awareness. |
00:19 - 00:22 | Without alerting the child, a mark is placed on his forehead. |
00:26 - 00:34 | Usually a baby younger than about eighteen months doesn't make the connection between itself and the person in the mirror. |
00:35 - 00:39 | The child may even look behind the mirror for the stranger it sees. |
00:40 - 00:42 | Child: Hi! |
00:52 - 00:56 | But by about eighteen months, there's a change in the child's awareness. |
00:57 - 01:03 | Now, it notices the red dot and the link between itself and the image in the mirror. |
01:05 - 01:06 | Child: It's not red anymore. |
01:06 - 01:07 | Experimenter: What's not red? |
01:08 - 01:13 | Child: My... my... my this. My head! |
01:14 - 01:15 | [noise from children playing] |
01:16 - 01:21 | Over the next few years, children go on to fulfill their human birthright. |
01:22 - 01:26 | Constructing an increasingly sophisticated sense of self. |
01:29 - 01:40 | They will have a rich and complex life of the mind and a sense of being the central characters in their own dramas. |