After seeing how she interacts with the little Maltese dog next door, Ellie's parents decide to get her a dog too. Ellie'snew Golden Retriever is much bigger and looks different, but because it is new but very similar, she understand ghow to interact wiyh iy. Ellie's response appears to reflect Piaet's concept of

1. Assimilatiom
2. accommodation
3. object permanence
symbolic representation.

Accommodatin

ASSIMILATION

Ellie's response appears to reflect Piaget's concept of accommodation. Accommodation refers to the process of adjusting one's existing mental structures or schemas to incorporate new information or experiences. In this case, Ellie had already developed a schema for interacting with the little Maltese dog next door. However, when Ellie's parents got her a new dog, a Golden Retriever, Ellie realized that her previous schema for interacting with dogs needed adjustment or accommodation because the Golden Retriever was much bigger and looked different. Ellie had to adapt her understanding of how to interact with dogs to include this new and different type of dog.