egocentrism

Examples of egocentrism in the following topics:

• What to Look For

  • When the speaker views the audience only through her mental perception, she is likely to engage in egocentrism.
  • Egocentrism is characterized by the preoccupation with one's own internal world.
  • Egocentrics regard themselves and their own opinions or interests as being the most important or valid.
  • Egocentric people are unable to fully understand or cope with other people's opinions and a reality that is different from what they are ready to accept.

• Bibliography

  • Vygotsky developed his own interpretation of Piaget's theory of "egocentric speech" in young children.
  • "Egocentric speech" is talking aloud to oneself.
  • As they developed this ability with maturity, the egocentric speech would begin to disappear.
  • According to Vygotsky, egocentric speech among young children is basically thinking out loud because children have not learned to internalize their thoughts.
  • Once they develop this skill, the egocentric speech begins to subside.

• Cognitive Development in Adolescence

  • Cognitive theorist Jean Piaget describes adolescence as the stage of life in which the individual's thoughts start taking more of an abstract form and egocentric thoughts decrease.
  • Being able to introspect may lead to two forms of egocentrism, or self-focus, in adolescents, which result in two distinct problems in thinking: the imaginary audience (when an adolescent believes everyone is listening to him or her) and the personal fable (which causes adolescents to feel that nothing harmful could ever happen to them).

• Giving Effective Criticism: Be Positive, Specific, Objective, and Constructive

  • There is an art to truly constructive criticism, since one can have good intentions but poor delivery ("I don't know why my girlfriend keeps getting mad when I tell her to stop with the fries already; I'm just concerned about her weight"), or egocentric intentions but appropriate delivery ("I'm sick of my subordinate coming in late for work, so I took her aside and we had a long, compassionate talk about her work-life balance.

• Solicit Information

  • However, you will want to guard against introducing your own egocentric biases into the observation.

• Cognitive Development in Childhood

  • Much thought during the preoperational phase is egocentric—focused only on the child's point of view.

• Socioemotional Development in Adolescence

  • Adolescents tend to be rather egocentric; they often experience a self-conscious desire to feel important in peer groups and receive social acceptance.

• Cultural Influences on Perception

  • The Egocentric bias causes individuals to think more positively about themselves than others think of them.

• Benefits of Cooperative Learning

  • Vygotsky supports this concept in his research on egocentric speech by claiming that verbalization plays a significant role in task solution (Bershon, 1992).

• Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development

  • Children at this stage are very egocentric, meaning they focus on themselves and how actions will impact them, rather than others.