Late one night George went to the drug store to pick up formula for his newborn child. He noticed that they were out of the brand his wife normally bought. When his wife tried to feed the new formula to the baby, she kept spitting out the nipple of the bottle, until she finally began to accept the new taste. The ability of the baby to adapt to the taste of the new brand of formula reflects:
A) centration.
B) assimilation.
C) conservation.
D) accommodation.

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The ability of the baby to adapt to the taste of the new formula reflects accommodation, which is the process of adjusting one's existing schemes (in this case, the baby's taste preferences) to incorporate new information or experiences (the different taste of the new formula). Centration refers to the tendency of young children to focus only on one aspect of a situation, while assimilation and conservation are related to Piaget's stages of cognitive development and do not apply to this scenario.

Late One Night George Went to the Drug Store to Pick