Question

Please provide an example of imaginary audience and one of personal fable. Explain why your examples are appropriate.

Answer 1

The adoloscence is an age when the children are evolving to think and understand about the abstract concepts. Their thinking is still mostly in concrete terms. Due to immaturity at abstract thinking skills, physical and cognitive changes, they are too self conscious and think highly about them. Their too much of self conscious that they are constantly watched is called imaginary audience. Their high regard about themselves is called personal fable in which they feel an aura about themselves.

Example of imaginary audience- Jena is 14 year adoloscent who got the braces for denture. She was too conscious about how she looked while smiling or laughing. She tried to avoid smiling and laughing at public because of this self consciousness. This is a imaginary audience because the adoloscent felt she was watched constantly and felt odd at the looks due to dental braces. The fact was that no body was to critical about the looks of that particular adoloscent, as she felt. Though people with whom they interact would notice initially but it won't be negatively evaluated as the adoloscent thought. Thus, the adoloscent failed to abstractly think to handle the situation and was dominated by the concrete thinking.

Example for personal fable- Joana a 16 year old is good at dancing and is under professional training. She knows her dancing skills and is confident about her moves at dancing. She attended a dancing competition but failed to secure any position. She was annoyed and blamed the judges for being partial and biased. Here, she failed to recognize that there are individuals who have better dancing skills than her and that she needs more training.