Sarah Has Recently Learned That the Sun Does Not Go

question 157

Multiple Choice

Sarah has recently learned that the sun does not go up and down each day, but that it is the Earth that moves. The fact that Sarah visualises the Earth moving up and down next to the sun each day (rather than orbiting the sun on its axis) demonstrates which Piagetian developmental task?

• A)Accommodation
• B)Assimilation
• C)Equilibration
• D)Conservation

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A selection of values, based on sample statistics, forecasted to incorporate the value of an unknown population parameter.

Population Mean

Population mean is the average of all the values in a population.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variation of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Population Mean

The average value of all items in a population, representing the central point of a data set.