Which term did Piaget use to describe changes in existing ways of thinking that occur in response to encounters with new stimuli or events?

A. accommodation
B. schema reversal
C. formal operations
D. assimilation


Answer: A

Psychology

You might also like to view...

Which of the following is an example of negative reinforcement?

a. whenever an undesired behavior occurs, an unpleasant stimulus is administered b. whenever a desired behavior occurs, a pleasant stimulus is administered c. whenever a desired behavior occurs, an unpleasant stimulus is removed d. whenever an undesired behavior occurs, a pleasant stimulus in removed

Psychology

The snail-shaped structure of the inner ear that houses the hair cells that transduce sound into a neural signal is known as the ______.

A. incus B. tympanic matrix C. stapedius D. cochlea

Psychology

Which one of the following ranges of item p values yield distribution of test scores with the most variation?

a. 0 to .3 b. .4 to .6 c. .7 to 1 d. 1 to 3

Psychology

According to the ______, members of a group see themselves as different from and superior to outsiders

a. in-group bias b. self-serving bias c. actor-observer effect d. ultimate attribution error

Psychology