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Assimilation
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Fitting new info into existing schemes
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accommodation
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Altering existing schemes or creating new ones i response to new info
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Equilibrium
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search for mental balance between cognitive schemes and information from the environment.
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disequilibrium
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The "out of balance" state that occur when a person realizes that his or her current ways of thinking are not working to solve a problem or understand a situation
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Object permanence
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the understanding that objects have a separate permanent existence
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Erickson’s theory
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at each stage, individuals face a developmental crisis; each crisis can be resolve by taking an extreme position on a certain topic or finding a balance between extreme responses; p.88
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Piaget's stages of development
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4 stages
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