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In Piaget's terminology,applying an old schema to a new situation is called __________
Closure
The psychological phenomenon of seeking a sense of resolution or completeness in perceptual or cognitive processes.
Contiguity
A Gestalt principle of perception; the tendency to perceive two things that happen close together in time as being related.
Continuity
A Gestalt principle of perception; the tendency to perceive things as simply as possible with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern.
Depth Perception
The visual ability to perceive the world in three dimensions, enabling the estimation of distances.
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