Assimilation and Accomodation

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

• Conservation

• Adaptation

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

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

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• Scheme

• Adaption

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

• Scheme

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• All above

A child sees a zebra for the first time and calls it a horse, fitting something new into her existing schema. This is an example of:

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

The child's father explains how a zebra is different from a horse; it has black and white stripes. Now the child correctly says "zebra" when she sees one, showing she has adjusted her schema. This is an example of:

• Assimilation

• Accommodation