| A | B |
|---|
| These help children understand the world | Schemes |
| According to Piaget, children | Want to make sense of the world |
| During infancy,schemes are | based on actions |
| Older children and adolescents use schemes | based on abstract properties |
| Extending an existing grasping scheme to a new object | Assimilation |
| Changing an existing scheme so it works for new objects or ideas | Accommodation |
| Children replace their current, outmoded schemes with qualitatively different, more advanced schemes | Equilibration |
| A 3-year-old is likely to believe that the same amount of ice cream is actually more when it is transferred from a large bowl to a small bowl | An example of centration |
| When a child thinks that everyone shares the same perspective of the world as s/he does | An example of egocentrism |
