Question

Ryan's family has a beagle, so when he sees any small four-legged furry creature, he says "doggie." The pattern of thought that provides Ryan with a concept with which to compare his understanding of "doggie" is called
A) a schema.
B) assimilation.
C) accommodation.
D) object permanence.

Answer 1

The correct answer is: assimilation!

This terms goes back to the Psychologist Piaget, who used it to call the process in which the stimuli (here the sight of the beagle) is accommodated into the knowledge that is already there, that is the knowledge of what a "doggie" is and how it looks like