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CHILDHOOD EGOCENTRISM: THE ORDER OF ACQUISITION OF BEFORE‐BEHIND AND LEFT‐RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS
Author(s) -
COX M. V.,
WILLETTS E.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1982.tb02523.x
Subject(s) - egocentrism , psychology , object permanence , centration , developmental psychology , cognitive development , perspective (graphical) , object (grammar) , backward masking , cognitive psychology , social psychology , cognition , perception , linguistics , mathematics , philosophy , geometry , neuroscience
S ummary . Piaget and Inhelder (1956) suggest that the development of perspective‐taking ability is sequential: children represent correctly before‐behind relationships earlier than left‐right relationships. Previous studies, however, have not considered the degree of masking present in each of the object arrangements. Three groups of 32 children (6‐, 8‐ and 10‐year‐olds) completed a perspectives task in which two‐dimensional arrays were used, thereby removing the masking variable. Children performed equally well on each type of relationship.