Mohammed, a high school exchange student, has just arrived from Malaysia to live with his host family in California. Mohammed attends a varsity volleyball game at his new school. At first, he seems puzzled about the rules of the game. However, as it progresses, he smiles and says, "This game is just like sepak takaru back home, only we play it with a ball made from bamboo and we can use our head and feet to volley the ball back and forth across the net." Mohammed's ability to adjust or modify his scheme of volleyball to fit his scheme of sepak takaru, is an example of
A) adaptation.
B) accommodation.
C) equilibration.
D) assimilation.

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Mohammed is adjusting his existing understanding or schema of a game (sepak takaru) to incorporate new information about a similar game (volleyball), which is a process of accommodation according to Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

Mohammed, a High School Exchange Student, Has Just Arrived from Malaysia