Jean Piaget
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According to Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, when a child is completely unable to fit new environmental information into pre-existing mental structures or schemas, and as a result either makes significant changes to their old schema or constructs an entirely new schema, what is this mechanism of cognitive adaptation known as?
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In Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, 'Accommodation' is the process in which a child modifies their existing schema or creates a new schema to adapt to new information when old information fails to explain a new situation. For detailed study on this topic, you can refer to the Wikipedia reference.
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