18-Month-Old Gordon Learned the Schema for Apples

question 16

Multiple Choice

18-month-old Gordon learned the schema for apples. When Gordon sees tomatoes at the grocery store, he says, "Look mommy, apples!" His mother tells him that the food he sees at the store is a tomato, not an apple. He now has separate schemata for tomatoes and apples. This exemplifies ________.

• A) accommodation
• B) assimilation
• C) seriation
• D) reversibility

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