Baby Jenna liked to suck on her pacifier. When she was old enough, her sister gave her a popsicle to suck on. It was a different shape and she had to change the way she sucked to eat the popsicle. The application of an existing scheme to a new object would be considered:
a. assimilation
b. accommodation
c. centration
d. hierarchization
Ans: a
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