Four-year-old Tom learns to lift his stuffed cat up by the tail.After one painful attempt,Tom realizes that you cannot use this behavior on a live cat.In Piagetian terms,Tom's new knowledge involves
A) accommodation.
B) organization.
C) assimilation.
D) equilibration.

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Accommodation refers to the process by which new experiences or information cause an individual to modify their existing schemas (mental frameworks) to fit the new information. In this case, Tom's attempt to lift his stuffed cat by the tail resulted in pain, which caused him to modify his existing schema to understand that this behavior is not appropriate for live cats. This is an example of accommodation because Tom had to modify his existing schema to fit the new information he received.

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