A child who has constructed a schema characterized by the belief that all police officers are men adjusts and expands his schema when a female officer comes to address her kindergarten class. According to Piaget, the child has successfully _____ her schema to incorporate the new information.
Social Studies · High School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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According to Piaget, the child has successfully *accommodated* her schema to incorporate the new information. Accommodation is one of the two key processes that Piaget proposed children use in order to adapt their schemas (the basic building blocks of cognitive models), the other being assimilation. When a child encounters new information that does not fit into their existing schemas, they modify their schema or create a new one to incorporate the new experiences; this is accommodation. In contrast, assimilation is the process whereby the child would integrate new information into the existing schema without changing the schema itself.