Based on Piaget's understanding of cognitive development, he came up with the term accommodation, which is:
A) how information is incorporated into existing cognitive structures.
B) how we create new cognitive structures and/or behaviors to incorporate new information.
C) how the brain creates neuropathways in order to adapt.
D) the bio-medical mechanism for understanding learning.
E) none of these.

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Piaget defined accommodation as the process of creating new cognitive structures or modifying existing ones to incorporate new information. This is in contrast to assimilation, which involves fitting new information into pre-existing cognitive structures.

Based on Piaget's Understanding of Cognitive Development, He Came Up