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question 18
18 - month - old gordon learned the schema for apples. when gordon sees tomatoes at the grocery store, he says, \look mommy, apples!\ his mother tells him that the food he sees at the store is a tomato, not an apple. he now has separate schemata for tomatoes and apples. this exemplifies ________.
a accommodation
b assimilation
c exclusion
d inclusion
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Explanation:

According to Piaget's theory, accommodation occurs when existing schemas are modified or new schemas are created to incorporate new information. In this case, Gordon had a schema for apples. When he learned about tomatoes (a new concept), he created a separate schema for tomatoes, which is an example of accommodation. Assimilation would be fitting new info into existing schemas (e.g., thinking tomatoes are apples). Inclusion and exclusion are not relevant Piagetian concepts here.

Answer:

A. accommodation