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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are schemes? | process of actions or mental representations that organize knowledge. (Piaget) |
| What is assimilation? | process of the incorporation of new information into existing knowledge. (Piaget) |
| What is accommodation? | process of adjusting schemes to fit new information and experiences. (Piaget) |
| What is organization? | process of grouping isolated behaviors into a higher-order, more smoothly functioning cognitive system; the grouping or arranging of items into categories. (Piaget) |
| What is equilibration? | process to explain how children shift from one stage of thought to the next. (Piaget) |
| What is disequilibrium? | the experience of cognitive conflict. (Piaget) |
| How do equilibration and disequilibrium work together? | trying to understand the world. Eventually, they resolve the conflict and reach a balance, or equilibrium, of thought. |
| What is the motivation for cognitive change? |