Children also learn to see themselves as others see them. Hence role-taking, or identifying and empathizing with other people, enables the child to become an effective social being.
Within the broad sphere of socialization, the development of the more specific area of moral judgment
“ is based on sympathy for others, as well as on the notion that the moral judge must adopt the perspective of the impartial spectator’ or the generalized other “. How well children learn to adopt others’roles depends to a great extent on the conditions of their social environment. Some environments encourage role-tasking and thus hasten children’s advance up the moral judgment hierarchy.