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imaginary audience  

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  • Originally used to represent the false belief that one is being watched and evaluated by others, David Elkind proposed that construction of an imaginary audience during early adolescence was a form of “adolescent egocentrism,” which he saw as a natural outgrowth of the transition to Piaget's formal-operational stage of cognitive development. Adolescent egocentrism is reduced as adolescents' cognitive capabilities become more refined and as more social experience is acquired. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Development; Imaginary Audience]

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