Piaget argued that at three critical points in a child's life, assimilation and accommodation

are no longer adequate for continued cognitive development.

As a result, radical revision
of the child's schemas is accomplished through the process he called
a. accrual.
b. attribution.
c. equilibration.
d. emendation.
e. oscillation.


c. equilibration.

Psychology

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