Tamara, a four-year-old, goes to see a movie at the theatre with her parents. As the movie begins playing, she is amazed by the size of the screen and tells her parents, “We need to get a TV that big at home.” Tamara has fit the movie screen into her “TV” schema through ____.?
a. ?scripting
b. ?generalized event representations
c. ?accommodation
d. ?assimilation
ANSWER:
d
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