Four-month-old Timothy takes his mother's keys and begins to put them into his mouth but then discovers that when he shakes them, they make a pleasant sound. Timothy's treatment of the keys demonstrates which concept of Piaget's theory?

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Accommodation refers to changes in existing ways of thinking in response to encounters with new stimuli or events. Timothy's use of the keys demonstrates that he is able to think about the keys (new stimuli) in a way different from the pacifier.

Four-Month-Old Timothy Takes His Mother's Keys and Begins to Put