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  2. Egocentrism - Wikipedia

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    Piaget also believed that egocentrism affects the child's sense of morality. [16] Due to egocentrism, the child is only concerned with the final outcome of an event rather than another's intentions. For example, if someone breaks the child's toy, the child would not forgive the other and the child would not be able to understand that the person ...

  3. Three mountain problem - Wikipedia

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    Piaget's aim in the Three Mountain Problem was to investigate egocentrism in children's thinking. The original setup for the task was: The child who is seated at a table where a model of three mountains is presented in front.

  4. Piaget's theory of cognitive development - Wikipedia

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    Piaget coined the term "precausal thinking" to describe the way in which preoperational children use their own existing ideas or views, like in egocentrism, to explain cause-and-effect relationships. Three main concepts of causality as displayed by children in the preoperational stage include: animism , artificialism and transductive reasoning.

  5. Jean Piaget - Wikipedia

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    Piaget was convinced he had found a way to analyze and access a child's thoughts about the world in a very effective way (Mayer, 2005). Piaget's research provided a combination of theoretical and practical research methods and it has offered a crucial contribution to the field of developmental psychology (Beilin, 1992).

  6. Centration - Wikipedia

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    Introduced by the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget through his cognitive-developmental stage theory, centration is a behaviour often demonstrated in the preoperational stage. [2] Piaget claimed that egocentrism, a common element responsible for preoperational children's unsystematic thinking, was causal to centration. [2]

  7. Adolescent egocentrism - Wikipedia

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    Elkind's theory on adolescent egocentrism is drawn from Piaget's theory on cognitive developmental stages, which argues that formal operations enable adolescents to construct imaginary situations and abstract thinking. [2] Accordingly, adolescents are able to conceptualize their own thoughts and conceive of others perception of their self-image ...

  8. Personal fable - Wikipedia

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    Egocentrism as Piaget describes it "generally refers to a lack of differentiation in some area of subject-object interaction". [19] Both Piaget and Elkind recognize that egocentrism applies to all developmental stages from infancy to childhood, to adolescence to adulthood and beyond. However at each developmental stage, egocentrism manifests ...

  9. Private speech - Wikipedia

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    In 1923, Piaget published The Language and Thought of the Child. [4] In this book he recorded his observations of children talking to themselves in classrooms and termed the idea of self-talk as "egocentric speech", [2] which was the earliest concept of private speech. For Piaget egocentric speech was a sign of cognitive immaturity. [11]