Four-year-old Melanie is exploring one day,and she finds a bottle of vitamins in a cupboard.They look just like some of the candies she got for Halloween,so she eats them all.Which of Piaget's processes is illustrated by Melanie's error

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Assimilation is the process of taking in new information and fitting it into an existing schema. In this case, Melanie had a schema for candies that looked similar to the vitamins, so she assimilated the vitamins into that schema and ate them as if they were candies. The other options (accommodation, centration, and object permanence) do not accurately describe Melanie's error in this situation.

Four-Year-Old Melanie Is Exploring One Day,and She Finds a Bottle