Lauren learns what a fish looks like from a book. her mother buys her a goldfish which she keeps in a fishbowl. she then learns that fish swim in water. lauren tries to incorporate this new event into her scheme of fish. this is an example of

This is an example of "assimilation".

Assimilation is a gradual procedure by which a man or gathering having a place with one culture embraces the acts of another, in this way turning into an individual from that culture. Sociologists normally recognize forced and unforced assimilation. In forced assimilation, a man or gathering is constrained to go up against the acts of another culture, for example, by receiving that culture's dialect and religious customs. In unforced assimilation, a man goes up against the acts of another culture however isn't persuasively constrained to do as such. Sociologists utilize the idea of assimilation to depict one way a man or gathering of a specific culture, (for example, migrants) may react to or mix with another culture, or how a minority social gathering may identify with a predominant social gathering.