Which of the following examples best illustrates Piaget's concept of assimilation?
a. A person who quits the baseball team after learning that you must wear extremely tight, nylon pants.
b. A child who changes her scheme of "all snakes are poisonous and deadly" after easily surviving a bite from a common grass snake.
c. A woman who, after being stuck on an elevator, decides that all cable-driven devices are unsafe.
d. A student who learns that opossums can hang from tree branches by their tail and therefore adds opossums to her scheme of animals with prehensile tails.
D
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