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Ted is playing a new lawn game for the first time that involves throwing wooden dowels as close as possible to a square target. He does well fairly quickly, because the game is so similar to horseshoes, something he’s already good at. This demonstrates Piaget’s concept of ______

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Ted is playing a new lawn game for the first time that involves throwing wooden dowels as close as possible to a square target. He does well fairly quickly because the game is so similar to horseshoes, something he’s already good at. This demonstrates Piaget’s concept of assimilation.

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was a psychologist from Switzerland that created the theory of "cognitive development" that refers to how children learn through childhood. "Assimilation" is a part of the adaptation process proposed by Piaget. During this process, we take new experiences and information that we incorporate in our knowledge

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