Question

Eighteen-month-old mickey is visiting a zoo for the first time. at the zoo he sees some zebras, an animal with which he is unfamiliar. despite this, he looks at the zebras and shouts, "look at the horses." he had previously formed a mental scheme for horses when visiting his uncle's ranch. piaget would say that mickey's reaction best demonstrates the concept of

Answer 1

Jean Piaget viewed intellectual growth in children as a process of adjustment to the world. This happens through thru assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration. For the 18th-month-old Mickey, his reaction (identifying and shouting to zebras as horses) is best demonstrated by Piaget’s concept of assimilation. Assimilation means the use of existing schema or mental model (zebra) to deal with the new object (horse) or situation.