Which of the Following Examples Best Illustrates Piaget's Concept of Assimilation

question 45

Multiple Choice

Which of the following examples best illustrates Piaget's concept of assimilation?

• A) A person who quits the baseball team after learning that you must wear extremely tight, nylon pants.
• B) A child who changes her scheme of "all snakes are poisonous and deadly" after easily surviving a bite from a common grass snake.
• C) A woman who, after being stuck on an elevator, decides that all cable-driven devices are unsafe.
• D) A student who learns that opossums can hang from tree branches by their tail and therefore adds opossums to her scheme of animals with prehensile tails.

Learn about critical federal acts protecting consumer rights in the credit market.

Understand the 5 Cs of credit and their importance in credit decisions.

Identify different types of credit and distinguish between open-end and closed-end credit.

Understand the principles and calculations involved in determining credit limits and debt-to-income ratios.

---

Definitions:

Control Limits

Boundaries set in control charts that represent the threshold at which a process is considered to be in control or out of control.

Sigma

A symbol (σ) representing the standard deviation of a population in statistics.

Pooled Standard Deviation

Pooled Standard Deviation is a method to estimate the standard deviation from several different samples having different sizes, assuming they come from the same population.

Sample Means

The average value of a set of observations drawn from a population.