Piaget used the terms “assimilation” and “accommodation” to describe how children are able to process and adapt their schema to new situations that have created a state of what he called ...

Schemas constantly grow and adapt as children gain new experiences, giving them the structure to acquire knowledge. Piaget suggested this occurs in two ways: assimilation and accommodation.

Schema, assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration There are a variety of terms Piaget used in his theory to explain cognitive development and how it’s achieved at different stages.

Assimilation, Accommodation and Equilibration are three important concepts in the description of the developmental process of human cognition in schema theory. Based on comparing some relative ideas ...