Meaning & use
centration
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the tendency to focus attention on only one feature of a situation while ignoring others, a concept from child development theory.
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Centration explains why a young child insists the taller glass has more juice, even after watching it get poured from a wider one.
Piaget used centration to describe how preoperational children reason about the world.
A note on using this word
A specialized term from developmental psychology, associated with Jean Piaget; rarely used outside academic contexts.
Words with an opposite meaning
decentration
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