Nora took her young son Alfred to the zoo, where he pointed to a zebra and said, "Look, Mommy, a horse!" Nora replied, "That is
not a horse; that is a zebra. See, it has black and white stripes." Alfred then replied, "Wow! Look at the striped zebra!" In this situation, Henry's development of a zebra schema required_______________
In psychology, accomodation means the modifying of existing knowledge when new information is presented. This occurs because we organise our knowledge in <u>schemas</u>, which are bits of data about a concept. In the example, Alfred's schemas of a horse may include a tall animal with four legs and a long face. When presented with new information (black and white stripes are common in zebras, not horses), he must change his previous knowledge of horses.
