According to Piaget, __________ is the balance between internal structures and information that children encounter in their everyday worlds.
A) imitation
B) adaptation
C) cognition
D) equilibrium

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Piaget believed that children strive for equilibrium or balance between their existing cognitive structures (schemes) and new information they encounter in their environment. When there is a discrepancy between what they know and what they experience, this creates a state of disequilibrium, which motivates them to adapt and reorganize their mental structures to assimilate the new information. Once this process is complete, they achieve a state of equilibrium again.

According to Piaget, __________ Is the Balance Between Internal Structures