Assimilation is to accommodation as:
a) necessary is to optional.
b) help is to hinder.
c) hinder is to help.
d) using is to changing.
ANS: D, In Piaget's theory, assimilation allows the use of existing schemas to interpret new information, whereas accommodation results in the adjusting or changing of existing schemas in the face of new information.
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