Four-month-old Timothy takes his mother’s keys and begins to put them into his mouth but then discovers that when he shakes them, they make a pleasant sound. Timothy’s treatment of the keys demonstrates which concept of Piaget’s theory?

a) assimilation
b) accommodation
c) organization
d) adaptation

Answer: b

Psychology

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15; 50 50; 50 15; 55 50; 15

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