CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

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: -Piaget noted that children at the beginning of this stage do not yet understand concrete logic, cannot mentally manipulate information, and are unable to take the point of view of other people, which he termed egocentrism.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thus, in Piaget’s early work egocentrism refers to a developmental stage that is characterized by the unconsciousness of the self and the lack of differentiation between, on the one hand, ego and world, and ego and alter ego, on the other hand.