Twelve-month-old Mitchell loves to play with his kickball. One day his father came home with a new ball for him to enjoy. Mitchell jumped up and down and shouted gleefully, "Kickball!" His father said, "No, Mitchell, this is a soccer ball." Mitchell is __________ the soccer ball to his existing schema of kickball.

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Assimilation is the process by which people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way of thinking. In this example, Mitchell is relating the soccer ball to his current schema of a ball of a certain size as a kickball.

Twelve-Month-Old Mitchell Loves to Play with His Kickball