A two-year-old child's family has a pet dog. The child visits the neighbor's house and sees their pet dog. Even though the neighbor's dog is larger and a different color, the child points to it and says "dog." This demonstrates Piaget's process of

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This demonstrates Piaget's process of assimilation, where the child uses their existing knowledge and schema of a "dog" to categorize and understand the new dog they are seeing, despite its differences in size and color.

A Two-Year-Old Child's Family Has a Pet Dog