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imowrer · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

A four-year-old child sees an adult dwarf walking down the street and exclaims, Look at that little boy This child, who has no previous reference point for dwarfs, is engaging in which process?

a. accommodation c. equilibration
b. organization d. assimilation

Question 2

Which of the following examples best illustrates Piaget's concept of assimilation?

a. A person who quits the baseball team after learning that you must wear extremely tight, nylon pants.
b. A child who changes her scheme of all snakes are poisonous and deadly after easily surviving a bite from a common grass snake.
c. A woman who, after being stuck on an elevator, decides that all cable-driven devices are unsafe.
d. A student who learns that opossums can hang from tree branches by their tail and therefore adds opossums to her scheme of animals with prehensile tails.