Six-month-old Nydia has been exclusively breastfed since birth. Thus, she has never drunk from a bottle. The first time Nydia is offered the bottle, she tries to suck on it the same way she is used to sucking
However, her old sucking behavior is not successful with the bottle. She has to adapt her sucking in order to get sufficient milk from the bottle. Nydia's new understanding of how to suck on the bottle is an indication that she has engaged in which of the following Piagetian processes?
a. accommodation c. schemes
b. assimilation d. conservation
a
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55 65 75 80
One way to alleviate the severe shortage of people working in mental health occupations is to
a. encourage people to enter the field as paraprofessionals. b. encourage psychiatrists to take on bigger case loads. c. remove the emphasis on preventative mental health services so the seriously disturbed can be attended to. d. simply pay these professionals what they are worth.