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Samantha walks into a classroom where two students are talking.
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They stop talking and she is certain they must have been talking about her.
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Is this an example of a, the imaginary audience, b, the personal fable, c, abstract egocentrism, or d, formal operations.
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So all of these are linked into adolescent development.
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So let's go through them.
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First of all, formal operations is unrelated to this social behaviour.
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It's the ability to think in an aspect, abstract manner.
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So dealing with very abstract concepts and manipulating them in the mind is a late stage of development that adolescents come into.
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So that's more cognitive ability and not this kind of weird social behaviour.
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What else do we have? we have the adolescent egocentrism.
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This is where adolescents have a perception of what people think about them and they can't tell that that is not accurate to reality...