Baby Elise has developed a sucking scheme. She knows that to get food, she must suck on her mother's breast. Now, her mother has begun to introduce solid foods with a spoon. Elise immediately sucks on the spoon. This is an example of
A) accommodation.
B) assimilation.
C) amalgamation.
D) application.

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This is an example of assimilation. Elise has taken her existing scheme of sucking to obtain food and applied it to a new object, the spoon. She is assimilating the spoon into her existing schema.

Baby Elise Has Developed a Sucking Scheme