At 6 months, Annabelle dropped her rattle in a fairly rigid way. By 12 months, she tossed objects down the basement stairs, bounced them off walls, and threw them in the air. Annabelle's modifications of her dropping scheme are an example of

A) accommodation.
B) equilibrium.
C) organization.
D) assimilation.


Answer: A

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