Answer:
In terms of "Schemas" early in life <u>Assimilation</u> is related to adjusting ones understanding of the world in order to it in new information whereas <u>Accommodation </u> is related more so to fitting new experiences into ones current understanding of the world.
Explanation:
In psychology, a schema describes both the mental and physical actions involved in understanding and knowing. Schemas are categories of knowledge that help us to interpret and understand the world.
A schema includes both a category of knowledge and the process of obtaining that knowledge. As experiences happen, this new information is used to modify, add to, or change previously existing schemas.
For example, a child may have a schema about a type of animal, such as a dog. If the child’s sole experience has been with small dogs, a child might believe that all dogs are small, furry, and have four legs. Suppose then that the child encounters a very large dog. The child will take in this new information, modifying the previously existing schema to include this new information
In the example above, seeing a dog and labeling it “dog” is an example of assimilating the animal into the child’s dog schema.
Whilst the child experience of seeing a very large dog for the first time after having mostly encountered small dogs and taking in the new information that dogs can be large too is accomodation.
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