A five-year-old is speaking on the telephone to his/her grandparent. The child holds up the picture they were describing and says to the grandparent "See." According to Piaget, this demonstrates _____.

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This demonstrates egocentrism, which is a characteristic of the preoperational stage in Piaget's theory, where children have difficulty seeing things from perspectives other than their own. The child assumes the grandparent can see the picture just because they can.

A Five-Year-Old Is Speaking on the Telephone to His/her Grandparent