Mrs.Tabak looks out her kitchen window and is upset to see that her 6-year-old son,Ryan,is picking all the tomatoes from her garden,setting them on his T-ball stand,and smashing them with his bat.Which of Piaget's processes is illustrated by Ryan's substitution of tomatoes for his regular red T-ball

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Ryan is demonstrating assimilation by incorporating new objects (tomatoes) into an existing schema (using his T-ball stand and bat for hitting). He is applying his knowledge of how to play T-ball to a new situation without changing his underlying understanding of how the game works.

MrsTabak Looks Out Her Kitchen Window and Is Upset to See