Jean Piaget Assimilation And Accommodation. Within jean piaget s theories on cognitive development are related ideas on how children process knowledge. Assimilation which is using an existing schema to deal with a new object or situation.
His theories however can also be useful for understanding learning in general and can be applied quite usefully to survivors of trauma. Assimilation of knowledge and accommodation of knowledge. It keeps the new information or.
In their book educational psychology authors tuckman and monetti note that piaget believed in the importance of balance between the accommodation and assimilation processes.
Assimilation which is using an existing schema to deal with a new object or situation. Assimilation of knowledge and accommodation of knowledge. Schemas assimilation accommodation equilibration. Assimilation and accommodation are two complementary processes of adaptation.