Mabel always thought of herself as being incapable when it came to fixing things. She easily developed the habit of asking her husband, Abel, to do even the simplest "fix-it" tasks, like changing a light bulb. Then one day Mabel got a flat tire on a country road. She managed to struggle through the process of changing the tire all on her own. From then on, she felt much more capable, and started to fix more things around the house. This best illustrates

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Accommodation is the process of modifying existing cognitive structures to incorporate new information. In this case, Mabel changed her self-perception of being incapable of fixing things by successfully changing a tire on her own, which led to her modifying her beliefs about her abilities and feeling more capable of fixing things.

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