PIaget's Schemes: Assimilation, Accommodation, and Organization
Storyboard Text
- Adaptation: Assimilation
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- Look, a cat!
- Adaptation: Accomodation
- That's a sheep. Sheep say, "Baaa!"
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- Okay. Hi sheep!
- Organization
- Four legged animalSheep Cat
- When this child sees a sheep for the first time, she will assimilate it into her existing scheme of a four legged animal. Since she has a four legged animal at home and calls it a "cat", she also calls the sheep a "cat".
- After her mother tells her the four legged animal is a sheep, this child will accommodate that new information into a new scheme and refer to the animal as "sheep" instead of "cat".
- This child now uses the internal process of organization to link together a hierarchy of these schemes. Her scheme of "four legged animal" now has sub-categories of the "sheep" and "cat" schemes. The organization process will continue to rearrange and link together schemes as learning occurs.
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