Egocentrism is Piaget's stage of cognitive development, where a child tends to see only his point of view and assume that everyone has the same point of view, or is wrong.
According to Piaget, self-centeredness is the stage that leaves a child unable to accept points of view other than his own, or to assume that all the right points of view are his or hers. Egocentrism is a way for the child to keep thinking centered only on his or her beliefs and ignore anything to the contrary.
