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Egocentrism: Childrens' thoughts and communications are typically egocentric (i.e. about themselves). Egocentrism refers to the child's inability to see a situation from another person's point of view. According to Piaget, the egocentric child assumes that other people see, hear, and feel exactly the same as the child does. Play: At the beginning of this stage you often find children engaging in parallel play.
In fact, the term private speech is essentially a Vygotskyan point of view; Piaget called it egocentric speech. Their different approaches to this phenomenon (i.e., speech to self) highlighted their fundamental differences about how human cognitive development proceeds.