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

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Darlene's mistake is an example of assimilation, where she integrates new information (the appearance of the vitamins) into her existing schema (candies) without differentiating between the two. This is why she thought the vitamins were candies and ate them all.

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