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At which stage of development, a child's thinking process is 'self-centred'?
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Pre-childhood
According to Piaget, in the pre-operational stage (early/pre-childhood, roughly 2-7 years), a child's thinking is egocentric, i.e., self-centred, and the child finds it difficult to see things from another's perspective.
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