Four-year-old Adam sees cows in a field.His mother points to them and says,"Cows." Later,Adam sees goats for the first time and calls them cows.Adam is demonstrating Piaget's concept of

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Adam is categorizing the goats as cows, which reflects his attempts to fit new information into an existing schema (in this case, his understanding of "cows"). This process is known as assimilation.

Four-Year-Old Adam Sees Cows in a Field