PSYCH 3AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Personal Fable, Hideki Matsutake, Egocentrism
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The last two stages are associated with adolescence. Thinking develops in universal stages and each stage builds on earlier stages. Accommodation: changing concepts in response to new information. Egocentrism: seeing the world from one"s own viewpoint. Elkind was a researcher who describes imaginary audience and personal fable, which gives ev egocentric views of the world. Adolescents are thinking that people are looking and them and noticing everythin doing. Personal fable: belief in one"s uniqueness; thinking that one"s feelings are different than. "no one has ever felt this way before" s evidence of thing they they"re than others. "no one has ever felt this way before" Learning from those with more skills than you. Proximal development: what one is ready to learn. Rogoff has suggested that culture and apprenticeship in learning is also important when cons interactions in development. Ability to think about more things: the nature of how things are made, where it was made, ho.