Question

For piaget, using existing schemes to interpret to understand new situations and events is known as

Answer 1

Answer:

For Piaget, using existing schemes to interpret to understand new situations and events is known as "assimilation"

Explanation:

Jean Piaget was a developmental swiss psychologist known or his contribution to learning, development and cognitive studies. In his theory assimilation is the cognitive process in which individuals receive information, analyze it and distribute it to adopt it and strengthen our current knowledge structure. According to him, we use association to establish relations between known and unknown experiences to solve them and create learning and knowledge from that.

Answer 2

For Piaget, using existing schemes to interpret to understand new situations and events is known as  sensorimotor stage
This is the Piaget's first intellectual stage. It denotes the period from birth to 2 years, when infants are relying on behavioral schemes as a means of exploring and understanding the events. Infants' actions are confined to exercising innate reflexes, assimilating new objects into these reflexive schemes, and accommodate their reflexes.