- (D) Antonia has a cat. The first time she sees a rabbit, she calls it a cat. Her error results from the
process of assimilation. Assimilation, as defined by Piaget, is the ability to take in new
information using one’s existing schemas. Antonia had a schema for a cat and used it to make sense
of a new animal, a rabbit. Accommodation will occur if Antonia is corrected and told that this new
animal with longer ears and a shorter tail is a rabbit, and she then creates a new schema for
rabbits. Discrimination and generalization are terms used together in discussing learning.
Discrimination is when one can tell the difference between a stimulus and similar stimuli, and
generalization is when one responds the same way to similar stimuli as one did to the stimulus with
which one was originally trained. Habituation is a decrease in response to a repeated stimulus.
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