Three-year-old Sara is trying to make sense of the fact that her mother is telling her that the hairy, four-legged creature in front of her is not a dog. What process would Piaget say she is engaging in as she tries to accommodate this new information?

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Equilibration is the process described by Piaget that involves changing one's cognitive structures to include new information. In this case, Sara is trying to accommodate new information that contradicts her existing schema of a four-legged, hairy creature being a dog.

Three-Year-Old Sara Is Trying to Make Sense of the Fact