Question

An elderly widow is angry with her children for telling her she should not live alone in her home anymore, because she fell recently. She blames the fall on inadequate lighting and claims that if her children did some house repairs, she could stay in her house. This woman's inability to deal with her changed circumstances reflects her difficulty in which of the following processes

a. accommodationb. assimilationc. achieving intimacy with herselfd. making a successful status passage into older adulthood

Answer 1

a. accommodation

Step-by-step explanation:

The concept of accommodation in psychology indicates the mechanism of inner change of the subject. He perceives life in society through his knowledge framework. Since these structures are not inherent in being, but constituted in their coexistence with the environment, the development of cognition is equivalent to the production of structures. The widow exposed in the question shows difficulty in expressing the concept of accommodation and realizing that she needs a change inside, so that she understands that she can no longer live alone.