Kayla sees a dolphin on television. At first she thinks it's a fish because it is swimming in the ocean. Then she sees that it must come to the surface to breathe. Kayla begins to form a new schema representing this new information. Which cognitive mechanism would Piaget say Kayla is using?

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Accommodation occurs when new information or experiences cause you to modify your existing schemas. In this case, Kayla modifies her schema of animals that live in the ocean to include the fact that not all of them are fish, based on the new information that dolphins breathe air.

Kayla Sees a Dolphin on Television