Six-month-old Nydia has been exclusively breastfed since birth. Thus, she has never drunk from a bottle. The first time Nydia is
offered the bottle, she tries to suck on it the same way she is used to sucking. However, her old sucking behavior is not successful with the bottle. She has to adapt her sucking in order to get sufficient milk from the bottle. Nydia's new understanding of how to suck on the bottle is an indication that she has engaged in which of the following Piagetian processes?a. schemasb. conservationc. assimilationd. accommodation
Piaget focused on two processes, assimilation and accommodation to study the nature of intelligence. Accommodation refers to the process in which new information is adopted by the individual in a different environment and is altered so that it can fit with the pre-existing knowledge. It helps in fixing the new information.
