Question

"ingrid has a dog at home, so she knows about dogs. as she walks down the street, she sees an animal coming toward her. the animal has four legs, fur, and a tail. ingrid knows that these are characteristics of dogs, but this animal is meowing, not barking. sally's mom tells her that it's a cat. now when sally sees an animal with four legs, a tail, and fur, she will conclude it is a dog if it barks and a cat if it meows, illustrating piaget's concept of"

Answer 1

This is Piaget's concept of a) accommodation.

Answer 2

It illustrates Piaget's concept of accommodation.

Step-by-step explanation:

According to psychologist Jean Piaget, accommodation happens when we change our schema (ideas) after receiving new information, in order to accommodate it. In the passage, the original schema was that animals that have four legs, fur, and a tail are dogs. However, when new information is presented concerning animals with those same characteristics which aren't dogs, the schema is altered. Now, if an animal has four legs, fur, and a tail and it barks, it is indeed a dog. If it has all that and meows, it is a cat.