DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
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A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information. (Learning something for the first time.)
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Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas. (Mistaking something for another thing.)
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Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information. (Fixing the mistake.)
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All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Initially proposed by Jean Piaget, the term accommodation refers to the part of the adaptation process. The process of accommodation involves altering one’s existing schemas, or ideas, as a result of new information or new experiences. New schemas may also be developed during this process.2
Detailed explanation-2: -Assimilation – The process of taking in new information into our previously existing schema’s is known as assimilation. The process is somewhat subjective, because we tend to modify experience or information somewhat to fit in with our preexisting beliefs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Accommodations are changes to the curriculum, An adaptation is a change to curriculum, instruction, or testing format or procedures that. instruction, or assessments that fundamentally. allow a student to demonstrate their abilities.
Detailed explanation-4: -Accommodation is a term developed by psychologist Jean Piaget to describe what occurs when new information or experiences cause you to modify your existing schemas. Rather than make the new information fit into an existing schema, you change the schema in order to accommodate the new information.
Detailed explanation-5: -Accommodation involves the modification of an existing schema to understand (accommodate) new information. It may involve creating a new schema altogether, for example, a child may have a schema for birds (feathers, flying, etc.) and then they see a plane, which also flies, but would not fit into their bird schema.