18-month-old Gordon learned the schema for apples. When Gordon sees tomatoes at the grocery store, he says, "Look mommy, apples!" His mother tells him that the food he sees at the store is a tomato, not an apple. He now has separate schemata for tomatoes and apples. This exemplifies ________.
A) accommodation
B) assimilation
C) seriation
D) reversibility

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Accommodation occurs when new information or experiences cause you to modify your existing schemas. In this scenario, Gordon modifies his schema for apples to accommodate the new information about tomatoes, thus creating a separate schema for tomatoes.

18-Month-Old Gordon Learned the Schema for Apples