In one work, this thinker described scientific knowledge as “perpetual evolution” to rebut claims that only historians or psychologists should study the development of ideas. This thinker began theorizing about childhood mistakes in problem solving while working under Alfred Binet. This thinker explained the development of knowledge by discussing cognitive equilibration between two of his central concepts. Four of this thinker’s lectures appear in the book (*) Genetic Epistemology, named for one of his theories. This psychologist discussed “assimilation” and “accommodation” as two methods of adapting schemas to take in new information. A model established by this psychologist begins with sensorimotor and preoperational stages. For 10 points, name this Swiss psychologist who created a four-stage model of cognitive development. ■END■
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orion Keller | Master and Margaritaville | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 40 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW A | 50 | 15 |
| Joseph Chambers | Free Agents 1 | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 51 | -5 |
| William Bao | Illinois Orange | Mahjonng Masters | 56 | 15 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Harvard | 56 | 15 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | NYU A | 67 | 10 |
| Arjun Vijaykumar | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Gruh | 67 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Simon Fraser | 70 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | girl 15 whale i mean they | UCSD | 73 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Cambridge | 73 | -5 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Michigan D | 73 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | Quatumvirate | MSJ | 74 | -5 |
| Alex Salcido | UCSB | Art of Premature Signaling | 75 | -5 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill B | Toronto D | 75 | -5 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois B | WashU Squirtle | 76 | 10 |
| Matthew Ribar | Arizona State University B | South Dakota School of Mines | 77 | -5 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 79 | 10 |
| Lyle Brenner | Billy's Bastion | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 79 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Too much from you lately | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 79 | -5 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | WashU Bulbasaur | 79 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo C | McGill A | 79 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown | Brandeis | 79 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn 2026 | we need new names | 79 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 81 | 10 |
| Daniel Sheinberg | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | evil women enjoyers | 81 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | UCSB | 82 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Egypt Airlines Haters | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 82 | 10 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial B | Lancaster | 84 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan A | Oberlin | 84 | 10 |
| Sam Matson | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 85 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | Iowa State | 85 | 10 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Ohio State C | 85 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | CWRU | Rutgers | 88 | 10 |
| Halee Carey | Mac A | Toronto Metropolitan | 89 | 10 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester | Warwick A | 90 | -5 |
| Cameron Ricketts | Warwick C | Warwick B | 90 | 10 |
| Alvan Hossein | Lexington | MIT | 90 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Mason A | 90 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | Chicago A | 91 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto B | Toronto C | 92 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | Toronto A | 96 | -5 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont A | Caltech | 99 | -5 |
| Josh Xu | UCLA A | Claremont B | 99 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | BU | 99 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan B | Michigan C | 99 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | UW B | 99 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State B | 100 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | mongeese | 101 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield B | Sheffield C | 101 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford B | Georgetown | 101 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Catholic University of America | 101 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | Carleton | 101 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | UCLA B | 102 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | Illinois C | 102 | 10 |
| Sam Stella | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | Goober Gang | 102 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial A | Edinburgh | 102 | 10 |
| Rhys Lewis | Sheffield | LSE | 102 | 10 |
| Marcus Smith | George Mason B | NYU B | 102 | -5 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins B | George Washington | 102 | 10 |
| Maximilian Niebur | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason C | 102 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE | Chicago B | 104 | 10 |
| Joyann Hua | UBC | Guelph | 107 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge | Birmingham | 109 | 10 |
| Vinayak Singh Bhadoriya | NYU B | George Mason B | 113 | 10 |
| Aedan Cooper | Ottawa A | Toronto E | 116 | 10 |
| Alex Xu | Caltech | Claremont A | 117 | 0 |
| Manu Cherukumille | MSJ | Quatumvirate | 117 | 10 |
| Robert Crawley | Warwick A | Manchester | 117 | 10 |
| Biniam Alaro | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Too much from you lately | 118 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto D | McGill B | 118 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Master and Margaritaville | 118 | 10 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto A | Waterloo A | 118 | 10 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Free Agents 1 | 118 | 10 |