The inability to distinguish between one’s own perspective and someone else’s perspective is known as:

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The prompt concerns a concept in social cognition where a person cannot distinguish between their own viewpoint and another person’s viewpoint.
Because the provided answer field identifies 'egocentrism' as the answer, we can use that as the anchor for explanation, while noting that the answer options list is missing in the data.
First, consider what egocentrism means: it is a cognitive bias or developmental stage where an individual has difficulty taking another person’s perspective and assumes that others think, feel, and see the world the same as they do. This aligns with the described inability to separate one’s own perspective from someone else’s.
If we had alternative options, we would evaluate each against the criterion of perspective-taking ability. For example, if an option claimed a purely logical or objective viewpoint, we would check whether it properly distinguishes self-perspective from others and whether it acknowledges the developmental or cognitive bias involved. A distractor might describe accurate perspective-taking as automatic or flawless, which would be incorrect given the definition of egocentrism as a limitation, not a universal capability.
In a typical multiple-choice setup, other plausible options might reference related concepts such as theory of mind, perspective-taking, or social cognition, and we would compare them as follows: theory of mind refers to the broader capacity to attribute mental states to others, which includes perspective-taking beyond the ego-centric limit; perspective-taking is the ability to adopt another’s point of view, which is impeded by egocentrism; social cognition encompasses the broader set of processes by which we understand others, not specifically the failure to distinguish viewpoints. Each of these would be contrasted with the egocentrism description to clarify why egocentrism is the correct label for the described inability.
Given the data, we conclude that the term that best matches the described inability is egocentrism, reflecting the core idea that one’s own perspective dominates without adequately distinguishing others’ perspectives.

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