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Fifteen-year-old Juanita wants to skip school today because she is having a bad hair day and is convinced that everybody will notice and think badly of her. "I can’t let everyone see me this way," she thinks. Which aspect of adolescent egocentrism is Juanita experiencing?

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Imaginary Audience

Step-by-step explanation:

Imaginary audience: It refers to the phenomenon in which an individual believes and thinks that a large number of people are furiously observing and listening to him or her. Imaginary audience state is usually found in adolescents.

In other words, the imaginary audience is described as an egocentric psychological state, in young adolescents, who believed as being watched from a variety of people.

A child experiencing to be an imaginary audience believes to be the center of attraction, if not is.

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