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| Example: short, fat glass of water poured into tall, thin glass. Which has more? |
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| an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment; used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
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| Piaget - children try to strike a balance between assimilation and accommodation, maintaining a balance between applying previous knowledge (assimilation) and changing behavior to account for new knowledge (accommodation). Helps explain how children are able to move from one stage of thought into the next. |
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| Piaget - Getting used to an experience after repeated exposure to it. Example: baby loses interest in hearing a sound after hearing it over and over. Shows 6 month old's can understand difference between pah and bah. |
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