Compare and contrast Piaget's concepts of assimilation and accommodation.
What will be an ideal response?
Piaget found that children and adolescents use and adapt their schemas, or mental concepts that are useful in organizing and interpreting information, through two processes: assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation is the incorporation of new information into existing knowledge. Accommodation is the adjustment of the existing schema to new information; In accommodation, the schema changes.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The internal processes that people use to set priorities for mental functioning are referred to as:
a. consciousness b. synesthesia c. attention d. hypermnesia
Alice believes that she can succeed in any course. She spends a lot of time studying the material in each of her classes, and her studying results in good grades and scholarships. The successes that she has experienced so far have further convinced her that she has the ability to succeed, and she is looking forward to starting graduate studies. This interaction between Alice's beliefs, her
behavior, and her environment illustrates the concept that Albert Bandura referred to as: a. reciprocal determinism b. locus of control c. self-monitoring d. self-actualization
Which statement is TRUE of drug tolerance?
A) With continued use, lesser amounts of a drug are needed to produce the same effect. B) Discontinuing drug use produces physical sickness. C) With continued use, the same dose of a drug has less of an effect. D) With continued use, a person begins to crave the drug less.