CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Four-year-old Jennifer mistakenly believes that her mother would like to receive a toy doll as a Christmas present.

Detailed explanation-2: -Egocentrism. Egocentrism refers to the child’s inability to see a situation from another person’s point of view. The egocentric child assumes that other people see, hear, and feel exactly the same as the child does. In the developmental theory of Jean Piaget, this is a feature of the preoperational child.

Detailed explanation-3: -Concrete Operational Stage (7 to 11 Years) Ajayi. “Egocentric thought is further replaced by operational thought as children start to be able to see things from someone else’s perspective, ” he says.

Detailed explanation-4: -Egocentrism: Egocentrism in early childhood refers to the tendency of young children not to be able to take the perspective of others, and instead the child thinks that everyone sees, thinks, and feels just as they do.