Four-year-old Hope thought her next-door neighbor's new pet rabbit was a kitty-cat until she noticed it hopped instead of walked, and it didn't purr at all. The change in Hope's understanding of her neighbor's new pet illustrates Piaget's process of:

The answer is Accommodation

Explanation:

Piaget considers that the knowledge construction process begins with the imbalance between the subject and the object. For him, the origin of knowledge on the part of the subject involves two complementary and sometimes simultaneous processes. The first is called Assimilation and the second is Accommodation. The accommodation comes when the children begin to understand the patterns, aspects, and behaviors, and accepts.

The change in Hope's understanding of her neighbor's new pet illustrates Piaget's process of: accommodation.

Explanation:

According to psychologist Jean Piaget, accommodation happens when we change our schema (ideas) after receiving new information, in order to accommodate it. That is what a child does when she creates a new category for an animal that she has never seen before. In Hope's case, she knew what a cat was and had a schema associated to it. However, when she realizes the animal she is looking at is different from a cat - it hops and it doesn't purr -, she must create a new category for it to accommodate it. The new animal represents new information that does not fit the previous schema. Hope must now create the category "rabbit".