Three-Year-Old Jesse Used to Call All Moving Vehicles "Car

question 27

Multiple Choice

Three-year-old Jesse used to call all moving vehicles "car." He now accurately categorizes moving vehicles into trucks, cars, motorcycles, and buses. Jesse has _____ to fit new information into his existing scheme.

• A) accommodated
• B) assimilated
• C) associated
• D) applied

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Definitions:

Maslow

A leading figure in psychology, Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist famous for formulating the hierarchy of needs theory, which asserts that psychological health stems from the sequential fulfillment of inherent human needs, the ultimate of which is self-actualization.

Personal Concerns

Issues or matters that hold significant importance or relevance to an individual's life and wellbeing.

Conscious Feelings

Emotions and sensations that are within an individual's immediate awareness.

Life Instincts

In Freudian psychoanalysis, the forces or drives within an individual that are primarily geared towards survival, reproduction, and pleasure.