Piaget referred to the act of taking in new information as assimilation. This results in accommodation, which is a modification of the child's cognitive structures (schemas) to deal with the new information. In Piagetian nomenclature, the balance between assimilation and accommodation is called

What will be an ideal response?


equilibration

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Each major mental health professional organization has its own code of ethics; however, most of these codes are:

A. specific and informative, giving answers to all ethical dilemmas. B. broad and general and do not provide specific answers to ethical dilemmas. C. not necessary to obtain or read. D. old and outdated, not pertaining to current ethical dilemmas.

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Social emotions are built on primary emotions and are learned in family and cultural contexts

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Children's whose body mass index falls at or above the 85th percentile when compared to others the same age and gender are considered

A) ?healthy weight. B) ?overweight. C) ?obese. D) ?morbidly obese.

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The “action arrow” of the problem-management framework indicates that clients need to act ____

A. from the beginning of the helping process B. only at the end of the helping process C. after Stage I when the problem is understood D. after Stage II when a plan is formulated

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