GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
PIAGET
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All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
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Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information. (Fixing the mistake.)
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Balance between assimilation and accommodation.
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Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas. (Mistaking something for another thing.)
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Detailed explanation-1: -Assimilation is the adjustment of a schema by adding information similar to what is already known. These pre-existing schemas can either be innate (such as reflexes) or previously acquired (Piaget, 1976).
Detailed explanation-2: -Assimilation describes how we interpret new experiences in terms of our current understanding, so in terms of our current schemas.
Detailed explanation-3: -n. 1. the process of absorbing, incorporating, or making similar. In making judgments, for example, it refers to finding similarities between the target being judged and features of the context in which it is judged.
Detailed explanation-4: -According to Piaget, the learning process involves the following: Assimilation: Attempting to interpret new information within the framework of existing knowledge. Accommodation: Making small changes to that knowledge in order to cope with things that don’t fit those existing frameworks.