A child who has had an unpleasant experience with dogs and who believes that dogs are mean walks down the street and encounters a dog that wags its tail at her. The child interprets the dog's behavior as threatening and runs away. Later, when she describes the dog to her parents and how it wagged its tail, the parents explain that this is a friendly response in dogs. Thus, the child begins to ____________ by changing what she believes about dogs.

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The child is accommodating her existing schema (or belief system) about dogs by incorporating new information provided by her parents that tail wagging is a friendly gesture, thus changing her beliefs about dogs.

A Child Who Has Had an Unpleasant Experience with Dogs