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Running head: ADOLESCENT EGOCENTRISM

Adolescent Egocentrism
William Hall
August 8, 2012








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Adolescent Egocentrism
Egocentrism exist as one of the most deeply embedded absence of preoperational view that
appears around the eleventh year of adolescence, nonetheless diminishes around the sixteenth
year. Adolescents often apply recently acquired skill sets on themselves; one course of action
which provides the adolescences loses of their detachment. Throughout their teenage years,
adolescence finds many of their thoughts centering on themselves, their belief postulates that
everyone watches them. The adolescences worries now focus on how others perceive and
observe them and try to assort thru their own conflicting feelings about parents, close friends and
school; considering things more extraordinary, but not always realistically. Additionally,
adolescences not only focus their consideration upon themselves, they also picture what others
think about them (Berk, 2008).
David Elkind (1967) stated that:
While the adolescent is often self-critical, he is frequently self-admiring too. At such times,
the audience takes on the same affective coloration. A good deal of adolescence boorishness,
loudness, and faddish dress is probably provoked, partly in any case, by a failure to
differentiate between what the young person believes to be attractive and what others admire.
(Elkind, 1967, p 1030)
Adolescent egocentrism supports the fallacy of why teens often think they are the focus of
everyones attention, however; this type of egocentrism in adolescent often leads to incorrect
conclusion. The invincibility adolescence fable, one which posits that young individuals have a
belief in which they will by no means succumb to victimization as do others, to any perilous
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behaviors. A second false conclusion which results from egocentrism in adolescences exists as
the personal fable that posits adolescences imagine their individual lives as quite exceptional.
Their perception of self exists often one in which they in comparison to others exists uniquely
different, distinguishable by experiences of uncommon uniqueness, values, and perspective.
Nevertheless another false conclusion which stems from egocentrism exists in the imaginary
audience; one that arises in adolescences commencing from the assumption in which other
people seem as extremely absorbed with them, as are they in themselves. Numerous
adolescences often seem to hold the belief that they exist on center stage, and consequently, they
continual to visualize how others respond to their behavior and appearance. Granting
egocentrism at beginning of adolescence remains typically evident; establish intuition in the
middle, as well logic in the end. Nevertheless cognition in any of the above aforementioned
forms could appear at any stage of adolescences (Elkind, 1967).








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Reference
Berk, L. E. (2008). Exploring Lifespan Development (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education,
Inc., Allyn & Bacon.
Elkind, David (1967). Egocentrism in Adolescence. Child Development, 38(4), 1025-1034
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