Tommy was at the park with his father and excitedly pointed to the squirrel and exclaimed, "kitty, kitty! " tommy had never seen a squirrel before but has a cat at home. his father pointed out that this was a squirrel and not a kitty. this best illustrates the process of:

I believe the answer is: assimilation
In psychology, assimilation is the process of combining a new information with another information that already existed in our brain.
This process is a crucial process in developing children's ability to understand the difference between one object with another.

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