alleryPiaget's name for the state of balance between prior ideas and openness to new ones:
ACognitive dissonance
BCognitive equilibrium
CCognitive overload
DCognitive apprenticeship
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Cognitive equilibrium
1. Assimilation and accommodation work together as the child meets new experiences.
2. Piaget called the resulting balance between relying on prior information and staying open to new information **cognitive equilibrium**.
3. The child keeps seeking this balance, which drives development.
**Why not the others:** Cognitive dissonance is Festinger's idea, cognitive overload comes from load theory and cognitive apprenticeship is a Vygotsky-inspired teaching model.
_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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