Based on Piaget's understanding of cognitive development, he came up with the term assimilation, which is:
a. how information is incorporated into existing cognitive structures.
b. how we create new cognitive structures and/or behaviors to incorporate new information.
c. how the brain creates neuropathways in order to adapt.
d. the bio-medical mechanism for understanding learning.
e. none of these.
ANSWER: a
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