Terrell is one-and-a-half years old and loves to pound colored pegs with his wooden hammer. One day Terrell's dad brings home a set of plastic bolts, nuts and wrenches for Terrell to play with

Terrell picks up a wrench and starts to pound on pegs with it. Terrell is demonstrating which process?
a) accommodation
b) assimilation
c) attenuation
d) sensitization


b

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