6/28/2004
desjardins/honig COGNITION
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Egocentricism
•Egocentric in thinking and behavior
•Things and events are seen from a personal and narrow perspectives and are happening because of self
•Sees everything through their own perspective and not realizing that other points of view exist
•Inability to envision situations from other’s perspective
•Inability to share–only for themselves
–not selfish