SHANTZ, CAROLYN U., and WATSON, JOHN S. Spatial Abilities and Spatial Egocentrism in the Young Child. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1971, 42, 171181. It was hypothesized that the ability of the young child to predict the location of objects on a mock landscape after he has physically moved around the landscape is positively related to his ability to identify object locations from another's (doll's) point of view. Each of 48 children between 3? and 6' years of age predicted object sites on a covered landscape after moving 1800 and 900, and on 2 trials were confronted with a "trick" perspective. A modified version of Piaget's mountain-scene task was also administered as a measure of spatial egocentrism. There was a significant relation between the number of errors on the 2 tasks. Of those children who verbally recognized the first trick perspective, significantly more had had some success on the egocentrism task compared with the number of children who completely failed it. Generally, predicting object sites when the child himself moves is an easy task in this age range, but identifying object locations from another's view. point is very difficult. There were no significant differences among the 3 age groups in accuracy on either task.