Five-Year-Old Michael Visits a Farm for the First Time and Mistakes

question 49

Multiple Choice

Five-year-old Michael visits a farm for the first time and mistakes the cows he sees there for horses, like he has seen on television.Michael's error best illustrates the process that Piaget referred to as:

• A)accommodation
• B)object permanence
• C)centration
• D)assimilation

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