18-month-old Gordon learned the schema for apples. When Gordon sees tomatoes at the grocery store, he says, "Look mommy, apples!" His mother tells him that the food he sees at the store is a tomato, not an apple. He now has separate schemata for tomatoes and apples. This exemplifies ________.
Accommodation in psychology is a word coined by the famous psychologist called Jean Piaget. this term refers to the child who has knowledge about something and discovers new information related to what he or she knows and the new information is accommodated to the previous information. In the example given, the child knows that the apples are red and round. But his mother explains what a tomato is. So, he can differentiate both with the new knowledge given by the mother.
