When a child sees a rabbit that is small, fuzzy, and has four legs, he calls it a cat because he thinks that all small fuzzy four-legged animals are cats. Which of Piaget's processes does this thinking represent?

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This thinking represents assimilation, which is the process of incorporating new information into existing schemas or mental models. In this case, the child's existing schema for small, fuzzy, four-legged animals is "cat," so he assimilates the new information of the rabbit into that schema by labeling it a cat.

When a Child Sees a Rabbit That Is Small, Fuzzy