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wikipedia; Through studying the field of education Piaget focused on accommodation and assimilation. Assimilation, one of two processes coined by Jean Piaget, describes how humans perceive and adapt to new information. It is the process of taking one’s environment and new information and fitting it into pre-existing cognitive schemas. Assimilation occurs when humans are faced with new or unfamiliar information and refer to previously learned information in order to make sense of it. Accommodation, unlike assimilation is the process of taking one’s environment and new information, and altering one’s pre-existing schemas in order to fit in the new information.
me trying to explain it…
so then you change the past in order to fit new information which means you take what you already know and it grows according to what you add to it thats accommodation cognitively and assimiliation would be to take new information and use old information to make sense of it they both have primary functions in the brain and to me they kinda seem like the same thing
in both situations the present is growing just with accomodation you see something and it adds to previous data and changes it but present data is not effected by past data because its brand brand new whereas with assimilation you take previous data to understand new data so like your studying a subject and you grasp the hang of a brand new discussion because a teacher already told you hella about the subject as basically as possible... accomodation means to litterally accomodate means to provide becoming
accomodate group see (provide) exists approach (be coming) theres a past memory existing you see something now you approach what you see with what exists already in your memory and they become apart of a group
assimilation... to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: to cause to resemble so... you take what is happening and make it a memory so that one day it can again be used to to present again or anew and be apart of a memory resembling something
what the hell why are the psychological definitions backwards from the literal definitions fucking nuts
i dont get it i see why its because you cant have assimilation without accomodation see if you make a new memory you have to have something to route it to so im my opinion everything assimilation and accomodation is just something you add to everything you assimilate basically it breaks down to this, you have base memory, thats what you assmilate and you take new memorys and you accomodate them to your assimiltions but not everything you assimilate becomes something you need for a base memory it may not be accomodated to serve any further purpose all accomodations were once assimilated and serve a purpose for self expression or communication
