Kai, aged two, has a schema for a ball: a round object that you throw and that bounces. In the kitchen he picks up an orange, shouts "ball!" and throws it, but it does not bounce. His mum tells him it is an orange, a fruit that you peel and eat. A few days later, Kai sees another orange in a fruit bowl.
Explain how Piaget's concepts of assimilation and accommodation account for Kai's behaviour, and predict how he is likely to respond to the second orange.
104 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 2.2 Theories/Explanations, covering 2.2.1 Piaget's four invariant stages, 2.2.2 Assimilation and accommodation, 2.2.3 Object permanence, animism, egocentrism, 2.2.4 Decentration, reversibility, conservation; criticisms, 2.2.5 Cognitive Development research study: Piaget (1952), 2.2.6 Dweck's fixed and growth mindsets, 2.2.7 Willingham's learning styles and meaning; criticisms, and 2.2.8 Learning research study: Blackwell et al. (2007). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.