AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The process of accommodation involves altering one’s existing schemas, or ideas, as a result of new information or new experiences. Assimilation of knowledge occurs when a learner encounters a new idea, and must “fit” that idea into their schema.

Detailed explanation-2: -Assimilation means a child uses a preexisting schema to understand a new situation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Assimilation is the process of integrating new knowledge into existing schemas by editing the new knowledge to ensure an acceptable fit. In other words, assimilation involves updating schemas without changing the structure of those schemas.

Detailed explanation-4: -Assimilation – The process of taking in new information into our previously existing schema’s is known as assimilation.

Detailed explanation-5: -His theory of organizational assimilation dissects the process into four distinct, yet interrelated phases: anticipatory socialization, encounter, metamorphosis, and exit (Jablin, 1982, 1987, 2001; Miller, 2006). These stages are made distinct by the communication phenomena that occur within each stage.