Lauren has learned what a fish looks like from a book. Her mother buys her a goldfish and a fishbowl. She then learns that fish swim in water. Lauren tries to incorporate this new event into her scheme of fish. In this context, Lauren is using _____.
A) accommodation
B) assimilation
C) differentiation
D) augmentation

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Lauren is using assimilation because she is incorporating new information (fish swim in water) into her existing schema of what a fish is.

Lauren Has Learned What a Fish Looks Like from a Book