Janis sees a bat flying over the lake and says, "Birdie"! Her mother says, "That flies like a bird, Janis, but that is a bat." Janis begins pointing saying, "Bat! Bat! Bat!" Piaget would say that this is an example of ____________
A) accommodation
B) preoperational thought
C) assimilation
D) egocentric thinking
Answer: A
Rationale: According to Piaget, accommodation occurs when children modify their belief structures based on experience. In contrast, assimilation occurs when children add new information, but interpret it based on what they already know. Because Janis appears to think that all flying animals are birds, she must modify this belief in order to include the information about bats.
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