A child who efficiently sucks a breast or a bottle is presented with a drinking straw,which requires a different sucking strategy.What is likely to happen?
A) The child will assimilate a new strategy and immediately be successful at sucking in a new fashion.
B) The child will be frustrated and unable to learn the new strategy. Children who learn to drink from bottles are unsuccessful at learning to drink from straws.
C) The child will accommodate the straw by changing the existing scheme for sucking and adding a new strategy to deal with the straw.
D) The child will abandon previous schemes for sucking and create a new scheme for sucking from a straw.

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The child will accommodate the straw by changing the existing scheme for sucking and adding a new strategy to deal with the straw.

A Child Who Efficiently Sucks a Breast or a Bottle