The ability to group 'objects' together on the basis of common features, according to Jean Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory, is termed as

Options

A. a find of matching between the already existing cognitive structures and the environmental needs as they arise
B. adjust to new ways of thinking and behaving by making modifications in one's existing cognitive structures
C. equilibrium between previous knowledge and new knowledge
D. arrangement of perceptual and cognitive in fromations in meaningful patterns

Answer

C

Explanation

Through studying the field of education Piaget focused on accommodation and assimilation, Accomodation, one of two processes coined by Jean Piaget, describes how humans perceive and adapt to new information. It is the process of taking new information one.s environment and fitting it into pre-existing cognitive schemes. Assimilation occurs when humans are faced with now or unfamiliar information and refer to previously Icarned information in order to make sense of it.