Four-year-old Laura finds a bottle of vitamins. They look just like Easter candies, so she eats them all. Laura's error illustrates Piagetian
a. assimilation.
b. accommodation.
c. mental seriation.
d. horizontal decalage.
A
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A) diminishing sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus. B) constant eye movements that allow the retina to continuously detect stimuli. C) process by which the lens changes shape in order to focus images onto the retina. D) process by which stimuli are changed into neural messages.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false