Five-year-old Michael visits a farm for the first time and mistakes the cows he sees there for horses, like he has seen on television.Michael's error best illustrates the process that Piaget referred to as:
A)accommodation
B)object permanence
C)centration
D)assimilation

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Assimilation is the process by which a child incorporates new information into existing schemes or mental structures. In this case, Michael already had a mental structure for horses from his previous experiences, so he assimilated the new information of the cows into his existing schema of horses.

Five-Year-Old Michael Visits a Farm for the First Time and Mistakes