A child lives in a family which owns a dog. When seeing a cow for the first time they call it ‘dog’, but a parent corrects them. Piaget would describe this as an example of the child using …………. to make meaning of this new sensory experience.

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The question presents a child who encounters a cow for the first time and labels it as 'dog', then a parent corrects them. This illustrates how the child tries to interpret a novel stimulus using an existing mental framework. 
Option a: animism. This is the belief that inanimate objects have life-like qualities or intentions. The scenario does not attribute life or mind to the cow; it simply uses an existing animal category, so this is not animism. 
Option b: Accommodation. In Piagetian terms, accommodation occurs when a child changes or creates new schemas in response to new information that doesn’t fit existing ones. Since the child is applying an existing dog schema to a new animal rather than modifying the schema, this example does not demonstrate accommodation. 
Option c: Magical thinking. This refers to a child believing that thoughts or wishes can influence events in the real world. The labeling of a cow as a dog is not about magical beliefs, so this choice misses the cognitive mechanism at play. 
Option d: Assimilation. This is the process of integrating new experiences into pre-existing schemas. Here, the child uses the dog schema to interpret the cow, demonstrating assimilation, even though the interpretation is incorrect. The parent’s correction would likely lead toward accommodation in the next step, but the initial action described fits assimilation. 
Thus, option d (assimilation) best captures the described process of making meaning of a new sensory experience through an existing schema.

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A child lives in a family which owns a dog. When seeing a cow for the first time they call it ‘dog’, but a parent corrects them. Piaget would describe this as an example of the child using …………. to make meaning of this new sensory experience.

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