A five-year-old English child is given chopsticks when he sits down for dinner at a Chinese restaurant while on vacation. She proceeds to hit them at the table and wants to take them home to use with her drum set. How would Piaget explain this phenomenon?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: This is an example of assimilation. This child has a pre-existing schema for drum sticks and these chopsticks look like drumsticks to her, so she fits them into her scheme for drumsticks because she does not have a schema for eating utensils that includes chopsticks.
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