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Jean Piaget (1896-1980) claimed that young children are egocentric. This does not mean that they are selfish, but that they do not have the mental ability to understand that other people may have different opinions and beliefs from themselves. Piaget did a test to investigate egocentrism called the moutains study. He put children in front of a simple plaster mountain range and then asked them to pick from four pictures the view that he, Piaget, would see. Younger children picked the picture of the view they themselves saw. However the Mountains Study has been critised for judging children's visual spatial awareness, rather than egocentrism. A follow up study involving police dolls showed that even young children were able to correctly say what the interviewer would see. It is thought that Piaget over-estimated the levels of egocentrism in children. Autistic people are particulary likely to be egocentric. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
(egocentric memory, myopia, infallibility, righteousness, hypocrisy, oversimplification, blindness, immediacy, and absurdity). |