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Date Posted: 20:41:07 02/21/07 Wed
Author: Julie Falvey
Subject: Egocentrism

David Elkind believes that egocentrism can be broken down into two parts: the imaginary audience and the personal fable. Since these behaviors are directly related to social cognitive development, I think that teenagers who live in countries with a strong media presence may be more inclined to exhibit these behaviors than teenagers in cultures with less exposure to the media. In our culture, we are bombarded with visual scripts that encourage us to develop from the outside in rather than the inside out. Create your "self" in reverse from a picture in a magazine or a character in a tv show or movie rather than listening to who you are on the inside and expressing that to the world. I agree with Vygotsky's view that knowledge is constructed through social interaction and, in this case, I think these behaviors are directly related to the presence of the media in a particular culture.

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