Four-year-old Darlene is exploring one day when she finds a bottle of vitamins in a cupboard. They look just like the candies she got for Halloween so she eats them all. Darlene's error illustrates Piaget's process of:
A)conservation.
B)accommodation.
C)assimilation.
D)egocentrism.

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Darlene's error illustrates the process of assimilation, which is when a child uses an existing schema (in this case, the idea that all small, colorful items are candy) to interpret and respond to new information (the vitamins). So, Darlene assimilated the vitamins into her existing schema for candy.

Four-Year-Old Darlene Is Exploring One Day When She Finds a Bottle