Before four-year-old Pat rode a tricycle, Pat believed it was the wind that caused tricycles to move. When Pat rode a tricycle for the first time, Pat discovered it was peddling that moved the tricycle. Pat changed his schema about how tricycles move through the process of ________________.

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Accommodation occurs when new information or experiences cause you to modify your existing schemas. In this case, Pat changed his understanding of how tricycles move from thinking it was the wind to understanding it's through pedaling, which is a classic example of accommodation.

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