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CTET 1 Mar 2026 Paper 1, Question 21

Topic: Piaget

Q21

According to Jean Piaget, intelligence is the ability to make changes in __________, the basic building blocks for learning.

  1. (1) Concepts
  2. (2) Cognitive maps
  3. (3) SchemasCorrect answer
  4. (4) Associations

Solution.

CBSE answer: (3)

Answer: (3) Schemas

  1. For Piaget, schemas are the basic units of knowledge that organise experience.
  2. Intelligence shows itself as adaptation: changing schemas through assimilation and accommodation.
  3. Cognitive maps (Tolman) and associations (behaviourists) belong to other theories.

Trap: (1) concepts are a broader, everyday term, not Piaget's building block.