According to Piaget, egocentrism refers to
A) a sensorimotor need for self stimulation, as evidenced in thumb sucking.
B) young children's exaggerated interest in pleasure.
C) the difficulty in perceiving things from another person's point of view.
D) the difficulty in realizing that things continue to exist even when they are not visible.

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According to Piaget, egocentrism refers to the difficulty in perceiving things from another person's point of view. Children tend to see the world only from their own perspective, and they have trouble understanding that others may have different thoughts, feelings or beliefs. This is particularly evident in preoperational children, who also exhibit other types of egocentric behavior such as animism and artificialism.

According to Piaget, Egocentrism Refers to