Question

When a child learns the word for "dog", they often apply it to all animals that have four legs. At some point, they are corrected and they learn that a dog not only has four legs, but a series of other characteristics that make it a dog and not a cat, horse, or rat. This process of learning the category of "dog" is:

a. Classical conditioning
b. Accommodation
c. Expectation
d. Assimilation

Answer 1

B

Step-by-step explanation:

Accommodation would allow the child to adapt their understanding of what a dog is compared to other four-legged animals. So, their knowledge of what characteristics dogs have but other animals do not would allow them to decipher dogs from other animals.