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In Piaget's theory, fitting new information into an idea the child already has is called:Read the answer and worked solution →When a child's existing idea fails and the child revises the idea itself, Piaget calls this:Read the answer and worked solution →A preschooler who knows the word 'bird' calls a butterfly a bird too. Piaget would call this:Read the answer and worked solution →

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In Piaget's theory, fitting new information into an idea the child already has is called:

  1. Accommodation
  2. Equilibration
  3. Conservation
  4. Assimilation
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Correct answer: D. Assimilation

1. Piaget named two processes by which a child adapts to new experience. 2. **Assimilation** interprets new information in terms of existing concepts (schemas). 3. **Accommodation** is the opposite move: the existing concept itself is changed. 4. Fitting new information into an existing idea is therefore assimilation. **Why not the others:** Equilibration is the balancing of the two processes; conservation is a concrete operational skill. _Source: Seifert and Sutton, Educational Psychology, 2nd ed. (2009, CC BY 3.0), Ch 2, section "Psychological constructivism: the independent investigator", p. 34_

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When a child's existing idea fails and the child revises the idea itself, Piaget calls this:

  1. Accommodation
  2. Assimilation
  3. Centration
  4. Seriation
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Correct answer: A. Accommodation

1. Piaget's two adaptation processes are assimilation and accommodation. 2. Accommodation is the revision or modification of an existing concept in the light of new experience. 3. Revising the idea itself (not just fitting new data into it) is accommodation. **Why not the others:** Assimilation keeps the idea unchanged; centration and seriation are features of particular stages, not adaptation processes. _Source: Seifert and Sutton, Educational Psychology, 2nd ed. (2009, CC BY 3.0), Ch 2, section "Psychological constructivism: the independent investigator", p. 34_

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A preschooler who knows the word 'bird' calls a butterfly a bird too. Piaget would call this:

  1. Accommodation
  2. Decentration
  3. Assimilation
  4. Equilibration
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Correct answer: C. Assimilation

1. The child already has a schema for *bird*. 2. The butterfly is new, and the child interprets it with the schema the child already has. 3. Interpreting something new through an existing schema is **assimilation**. 4. Only when the child later narrows the bird idea (to exclude butterflies) does accommodation happen. **Why not the others:** Accommodation would mean the bird schema itself changed, which has not happened yet. _Source: Seifert and Sutton, Educational Psychology, 2nd ed. (2009, CC BY 3.0), Ch 2, section "Psychological constructivism: the independent investigator", p. 34_

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