If an Infant Has Learned to Push Buttons on a Toy

question 111

Multiple Choice

If an infant has learned to push buttons on a toy to get it to make funny sounds, and now the toy is changed so that she must turn the buttons to the left or right to hear the sounds, the learning this requires would best be considered an example of:

• A) metacognition
• B) assimilation
• C) equilibration
• D) accommodation

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Definitions:

Schizophrenogenic Mother

A now discredited theory suggesting that a cold and rejecting mother could cause schizophrenia in her child.

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

A psychoanalyst known for her groundbreaking work in the treatment of schizophrenia and her concept of "the schizophrenogenic mother."

Sigmund Freud

An Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Sociocultural Therapist

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