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CTET 1 Mar 2026 Paper 1, Question 7

Topic: Piaget

Q7

Children demonstrate ___________ when they add the new schema for recognizing ‘horses’ to their other systems for identifying animals.

  1. (1) Scaffolding
  2. (2) AccommodationCorrect answer
  3. (3) Metacognition
  4. (4) Assimilation

Solution.

CBSE answer: (2)

Answer: (2) Accommodation

  1. In Piaget's theory, accommodation means changing existing schemas or forming a new one when old ones cannot fit new information.
  2. Here the child builds a new schema for 'horses' and fits it into the wider system for identifying animals.
  3. Assimilation would mean putting the horse into an existing schema without change, for example calling it a 'big dog'.

Trap: (4) assimilation; the stem says a new schema is added, which is accommodation.