A Child's Cognitive Process in Identifying Pets

A two-year-old child has a pet dog named Sophie.

The child visits her neighbor and sees the neighbor's pet dog. Even though the neighbor's dog is larger and of a different color, the child points to it and calls it a dog.

Which of Piaget's cognitive processes is the child demonstrating?

Answer:

Assimilation

Explanation:

Assimilation is the cognitive development process that fit new information into new information that can be understood for all people in the world.

Whenever people encounter the new information in the world they process that information, the sense that information and relate that information to the existing information.

This is also called the part of the process called accommodation. These phenomena were developed by Jean Piaget. The two-year child develops assimilation related to the information of their pet named Sophie.