A counselor tries to use sports' metaphors with her clients in order to help them gain insight into their behavior.Certain clients lack the background knowledge about sports to understand her messages,so they fail to demonstrate any increased understanding about themselves or their problems.This primarily describes a failure of

A) assimilation.
B) accommodation
C) intrinsic motivation
D) accepting new information

This scenario describes a failure of accommodation, which is the cognitive process of revising existing cognitive schemas, perceptions, and understanding so that new information can be incorporated. In this case, the clients are unable to incorporate the counselor's sports metaphors into their understanding due to a lack of background knowledge, indicating a failure in adjusting their mental models to accommodate the new information.