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 behaviour 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 is the process of adjusting one's existing schemas or mental frameworks to incorporate new experiences or information. Tom's realization that he cannot lift a live cat by the tail is a result of accommodating his previous knowledge about lifting objects by the tail to include the understanding that it is not appropriate to do so with a live animal. Therefore, the correct answer is A) accommodation.

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