Baby Melissa has developed a sucking scheme.She learned that to get food,she must suck on her mother's breast.Now her mother has begun to introduce solid foods with a spoon.Melissa immediately sucks on the spoon.This is an example of:

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This is an example of assimilation, where Melissa is applying her previous knowledge of sucking to a new object, the spoon. She is assimilating the spoon into her existing sucking scheme.

Baby Melissa Has Developed a Sucking Scheme