Concept:Jean Piaget believed children actively construct knowledge by interacting with their environment. Learning happens through adaptation, not passive memorization or rewards.
Explanation:Piaget described the mind using schemas (mental frameworks).
When children encounter new information, they use two key processes: assimilation (fitting new info into existing schemas) and accommodation (changing schemas to fit new info).
Together, these form adaptation. Equilibration balances assimilation and accommodation to keep a stable understanding.
Piaget argued that learning is a lasting change in behaviour resulting from this active process of adaptation.
Scaffolding (option B) is Vygotsky’s idea, not Piaget’s. Memorization (A) and rewards (D) are not central to Piaget’s theory.
Answer:According to Piaget's theory, children learn by processes of adaptation (Option C).