Nageeb thought all nurses were young females until a middle-aged male nurse took care of him. Nageeb's altered conception of a "nurse" illustrates the process of

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Nageeb's altered conception of a "nurse" indicates a change in his mental schema or cognitive structures, which in Piaget's theory is achieved through the process of accommodation. Accommodation involves modifying existing schema to adapt to new information or experiences that cannot be assimilated into existing schema. In this case, Nageeb's schema of a nurse as a female was inadequate to account for the new information of a male nurse, and thus his schema had to be modified through accommodation.

Nageeb Thought All Nurses Were Young Females Until a Middle-Aged