alleryBesides maturation, experience and social environment, which fourth factor did Piaget add?
AReinforcement
BImitation
CEquilibration
DScaffolding
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Equilibration
1. Most developmental psychologists name three factors in development: maturation, experience and the social environment.
2. Piaget agreed with these three.
3. His distinctive addition was a fourth factor, **equilibration**: the child's own effort to keep schemes in balance.
4. Equilibration is the motivational element that guides cognitive development in his theory.
**Why not the others:** Reinforcement belongs to behaviourism, imitation to social learning theory and scaffolding to work that grew out of Vygotsky's ZPD.
_Source: Wikipedia, "Piaget's theory of cognitive development", section "Cognitive equilibration" (revision 1379038101)_
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