Dessert Palaeice specializes in creating and selling unique bakes and ice creams. It introduces a specialty ice cream, served with a salty sauce instead of its usual array of sweet sauces. Dessert Palaeice's customers, though initially apprehensive, welcome the change in taste. Which of the following reactions is most likely responsible for the customers' cognitive categorization of the new product?
A) Assimilation
B) Apprehension
C) Accommodation
D) Contrast

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Accommodation refers to the process of adjusting one's current schemas or mental categories to incorporate new information or experiences. In this scenario, the customers had to adjust their mental category of ice cream with sweet sauce to include the new experience of ice cream with salty sauce, which is why they welcomed the change in taste.

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