Piaget believed that each child:
A)passively soaks up information about the world.
B)actively tries to make sense of his or her environment.
C)progresses through a series of eight stages of psychosocial development.
D)is biologically programmed to learn any language.

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Piaget believed that children actively construct their understanding of the world through their experiences with it. This process is called assimilation and accommodation, where the child assimilates new experiences into their existing understanding of the world and accommodates their understanding by adjusting their mental schema to fit new information. Piaget saw children as active participants in their own learning and development.

Piaget Believed That Each Child