Abby, a 15-month-old girl, has a white poodle as a pet at home. She knows that the pet is a dog. (She calls it "puppy.") While Abby is at the park with her mother, she sees a small white dog. She points at the dog and says,"Puppy!" What Piagetian concept does this example describe?
Assimilation
Accommodation
Organization
Equilibration
assimilation
- we take new info and incorporate them into our pre existing ideas
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A. underweight during childhood and adulthood B. overweight during childhood and adulthood C. overweight at birth but not in later life D. a normal weight throughout life
Within 20 years, primarily because of the sexual activities of young adults, _______ became a worldwide epidemic
STIs HIV AIDS PTS
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a. The intelligence test that Florida used was not valid for determining IQ. b. Florida did not consider the standard error of measurement of the test score. c. IQ isn’t a good measure of the degree of intellectual disability. d. Florida didn’t consider the other types of intelligence that weren’t measured by the test used.
Paz just ate some salty popcorn. Now she is experiencing an increase in the concentration of sodium in her _____.
A. extracellular fluid B. intracellular fluid C. ventricles D. hypothalamus