Whenever jane has a backache, she uses a different mattress to relieve the pain. her backache usually goes away after the change. today, jane has serious pain in her knee. she believes that by using the mattress she uses for her backache, she will be able to alleviate her knee pain. in the context of piaget's theory of cognitive development, jane is using the process in developing her schemas.

assimilation      

Explanation:

Assimilation: Developed by a psychologist named Jean Piaget in his theory of cognitive development. The process of assimilation is defined as a way of developing or absorbing new knowledge by an individual.

According to Piaget, assimilation is a cognitive process in which an individual takes up a new piece of experience and information to subsume it into his or her pre-existing knowledge or ideas.

In the context of Piaget's theory of cognitive development, Jane is using the assimilation process in developing her schemas.

giant impact theory - the moon was formed from the collision between earth and another mars-sized body.

colliding planetesimals hypothesis - the moon was formed from the same cloud of material as earth.

capture hypothesis - the moon was locked into orbit by earths gravity as it was passing by it.

accretion hypothesis - the moon was formed from collisions and combining of planetesimals.

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