alleryIn Piaget's theory, fitting new information into an idea the child already has is called:
AAccommodation
BEquilibration
CConservation
DAssimilation
Answer & Solution
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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