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Until he went to the zoo, 2-year-old david's schema for a cat was a small, furry animal that purred. when a lion roared at the zoo, david's dad said, "listen to that big cat." the complexity of david's schema for cats increased, best illustrating what piaget called _____.

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I believe the answer is: Accommodation
According to piaget, accommodation refers to the process of adding new information into an existing Schema.
This happen when someone decided to update their old memories when facing with a contradictory one rather than completely change it into a new one.
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