Janis sees a bat flying over the lake and says,"Birdie"! Her mother says,"That flies like a bird,Janis,but that is a bat." Janis begins pointing saying,"Bat! Bat! Bat!" Piaget would say that this is an example of
A)accommodation.
B)preoperational thought.
C)assimilation.
D)egocentric thinking.

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Piaget's theory of cognitive development describes accommodation as the process of adjusting existing schemas or mental frameworks to fit new information or experiences. In this scenario, Janis initially called the bat a "birdie" based on her existing schema for flying creatures, but she accommodated her schema to incorporate the new information from her mother that the creature was actually a bat. Therefore, her behavior is an example of accommodation.

Janis Sees a Bat Flying Over the Lake and Says,"Birdie"!