When you make sense of new information by revising or creating a new schema, this process is called:

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Accommodation involves changing one's existing schemas or ideas as a result of new information or new experiences, which is what the question describes. Assimilation, on the other hand, involves incorporating new experiences into existing schemas without changing them. Cognitive retrieval is about recalling information from memory, and schema repair isn't a standard term in cognitive psychology related to processing new information.

When You Make Sense of New Information by Revising or Creating