Piaget's Term for the Creation of New Ways of Responding

question 193

Multiple Choice

Piaget's term for the creation of new ways of responding to objects is

• A)assimilation.
• B)schemata.
• C)accommodation.
• D)invariance.

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Definitions:

Random Assignment

The process of allocating subjects or experimental units to different groups in an experiment using random methods, to ensure that each group is similar at the start.

Double Blind

A study or experiment design in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment, to prevent bias.

Stratifying

The process of dividing a population or sample into subgroups, known as strata, to ensure that research or analysis is more accurate and reflective of the whole.

Blocking

A design technique in experiments that groups units with similar characteristics together to isolate the variable of interest and reduce variation.