While being dressed for bed, 7-month-old Darrell picked up the new baby's comb that his mother just bought for him.Darrell had never seen this before and didn't know how it was used, so he tried to put it in his mouth.Piaget might say that Darrell was

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Piaget would say that Darrell was assimilating the comb into his existing schemes because he was trying to understand the new object (the comb) by relating it to an action he already knows (putting things in his mouth), which is a classic example of assimilation.

While Being Dressed for Bed, 7-Month-Old Darrell Picked Up the New