If an infant has learned to push buttons on a toy to get it to make funny sounds, and now the toy is changed so that she must turn the buttons to the left or right to hear the sounds, the learning this requires would best be considered an example of:
A) metacognition
B) assimilation
C) equilibration
D) accommodation

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In Piaget's theory, accommodation requires us to modify a schema in order to incorporate the new information. In this example, the infant must modify her schema for the toy in order to hear the sounds.

If an Infant Has Learned to Push Buttons on a Toy