Four-year-old Hope thought her next-door neighbor's new pet rabbit was a kitty-cat until she noticed it hopped instead of walked, and it didn't purr at all. The change in Hope's understanding of her neighbor's new pet illustrates Piaget's process of:

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Piaget's process of accommodation refers to the process of modifying existing cognitive schemas or creating new ones to fit new information. Hope had to modify her existing schema of a kitty-cat to fit the new information that the neighbor's pet was actually a rabbit that hopped instead of walked and did not purr.

Four-Year-Old Hope Thought Her Next-Door Neighbor's New Pet Rabbit Was