Four-year old Tamara goes to see a movie at the theatre with her parents. As the movie begins playing, she is amazed by the size of the screen and tells her parents, "We need to get a TV that big at home." Tamara has fit the movie screen into her "TV" schema through

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Tamara is using assimilation because she is incorporating the new experience of the large movie screen into her existing schema of a TV without changing the schema itself.

Four-Year Old Tamara Goes to See a Movie at the Theatre