A two-year-old child's family has a pet rabbit. When the family visits the zoo, the child sees a hamster for the first time and calls it a rabbit because of the physical features that are common to a rabbit and a hamster. According to Piaget, which cognitive process will most likely modify the child's understanding?

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Jorden Ballard

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3 August, 17:45

A two-year-old child's family has a pet rabbit. When the family visits the zoo, the child sees a hamster for the first time and calls it a rabbit because of the physical features that are common to a rabbit and a hamster. According to Piaget, which cognitive process will most likely modify the child's understanding?

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Evan Spears · Answer 1

The correct answer is:

Accommodation

Explanation:

According to Piaget, there are some schemas created by children in the learning process about some certain information, that has to do with the physical appearance or a kind of mental process. These schemas can be modified as long as the child acquires more and more information, that is to say, in the accommodation process the pre-established schemas already created in the children's mind change to assimilate the new information, this process occurs in order to change, adapt, or adjust the way in which the individual interprets the surrounding world.