Concept:Piaget’s theory explains how children update their mental frameworks (schemas) when they encounter new information that doesn’t fit their existing knowledge.
Explanation:A schema is a mental structure that organises knowledge.
When a child learns something new, they try to fit it into an existing schema – this is called assimilation.
However, if the new information cannot be fitted into any existing schema, the child must change or create a new schema.
This process of changing the existing schema to incorporate new information is called accommodation.
For example, a child who knows a dog as a “four-legged animal” may initially call a cat a dog (assimilation).
When they learn that cats are different, they modify their schema to separate cats from dogs – this is accommodation.
Equilibration is the balance between assimilation and accommodation.
Egocentrism is the inability to see another person’s perspective, which is unrelated to changing schemas.
Thus, the correct term for altering an existing schema to include new information is accommodation.
Answer:B. accommodation