Assimilation and Accomodation

The process in which individual create new schemes or adjust the already existing ones.

• Conservation

• Adaptation

• Abstract thinking

• Accommodation

These are the building blocks of our cognition, linked mental representations of the world to help understand the world around us.

• Adaptation

• Assimilation

• Schemas

• Accommodation

When an existing schema does not work, need information can be incorporated to create a new schema.

• Assimilation

• Object Permanence

• Adaption

• Accommodation

A schema is a:

• Framework of knowledge that allows us to interpret and understand the world

• Process of taking in new information

• Process of balancing old and new information

• I don't know!

The process of taking in new information and adding it to what the child already knows is called __________

• accommodation

• schema

• assimilation

• all of the above

____ is adjusting what is already known to fit the new information.

• schemata
• assimilation
• accommodation
• Really?

Schemas are formed to...

• help children build memory skills

• help children learn to speak and use grammar

• help children build a mental representation of the world around them

• help children build secure attachments

trying to fit new objects into an existing schema

• Accomodation

• Assimilation

changing your schema to fit the characteristics of a new object

• Accomodation

• Assimilation

A kid sees a wolf for the first time; he says to his mother: "Look mom, a big dog!" What process of adaptation was used here?

• Accomodation

• Assimilation