A boy in your class says, "Only girls clean things up."You respond, "In our classroom, everyone puts things away and cleans things."By saying this, you will help this child:
A) assimilate to this new information
B) accommodate to this new information
C) ignore this new information
D) rely on adherence
E) all are correct

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By responding in this manner, you are helping the child accommodate to this new information by adjusting his existing schemas or understanding to include this new experience or information, which challenges his previous belief that only girls clean things up. Accommodation involves changing one's mental frameworks to make sense of new experiences, which is what the child would be doing in this scenario.

A Boy in Your Class Says, "Only Girls Clean Things