As an adult we understand reputations influence how we interact with each other in society. We gain reputations through our actions and opinions from our peers based on their beliefs, be they false or true. The question is when does a child recognize reputations and fully understand what a reputation is? A child's understanding of a reputation could include knowing the existence of, the origins of, the nature of, and the consequences of reputations. Reputations can affect a child's social adjustment with peers and their psychological state.
The conceptual understandings of social experiences necessary to learn about reputations occur during the early elementary school years. By first grade children understand that individuals may have different beliefs and those beliefs may originate through indirect experience, such as inferences and verbal communication as well as through direct experience. Beginning around first or second grade, reputations occur within children's peer groups......
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