Four-year-old Alex and his mother visited the zoo.While they were there,Alex's mother took him to see the squirrel exhibit.Alex saw many different types of squirrels,but when he saw a flying squirrel glide from one branch to the next,he pointed and said,"A bird." Considering Piaget's work,Alex is demonstrating an example of

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Alex is assimilating the flying squirrel into his existing schema for birds, which is incorrect. He is not accommodating his schema to fit the new information about flying squirrels being a different type of animal.

Four-Year-Old Alex and His Mother Visited the Zoo