AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Egocentrism refers to someone’s inability to understand that another person’s view or opinion may be different than their own. 1 It represents a cognitive bias, in that someone would assume that others share the same perspective as they do, unable to imagine that other people would have a perception of their own.

Detailed explanation-2: -: limited in outlook or concern to one’s own activities or needs. : self-centered, selfish. egocentrically.

Detailed explanation-3: -For example, if a child wants very much for something to happen, and it does, the child believes he or she caused it to happen. If your daughter is mad at her brother and wants him to leave, and he then gets sick and goes to the hospital, your daughter may think her brother’s illness is her fault.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Piaget, logical egocentrism is due to the fact that “the child sees everything from his own point of view, it is because he believes all the world to think like himself.

Detailed explanation-5: -There are various degrees of being self-centered, but the general traits are the same: putting themselves first, only caring about their needs and wants, being unable to see another’s perspective, being uncaring of others.