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dem82 [27]
3 years ago
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Alicia, a three-year-old girl, knows that fish swim in water. when she sees an alligator for the first time, she says to her fat

her, "look at that big fish!" her father tells her that the creature is not a fish, but an alligator. later, alicia sights a frog and asks her father "what is that called
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1 answer:
ioda3 years ago
7 0
The first thing refers to assimilation, and the second to accommodation. 
She knows that fish live in the water and they swim there, which is why she assimilated that knowledge when she saw an alligator and thought it was a big fish because it lives in the same place fish do. However, once her father explained to her that it is not a fish, she realized that there are some organisms in the water which are not fish, even though they exhibit the same qualities, which is when she accommodated her new knowledge when it came to a frog.
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