Question

You are in a shopping mall with your neighbor and her 2 1/2 year old son. in one of the shops the boy spots a male clerk wearing a nose ring, smiles points at the clerk and says bobby. your neighbor says no sweetheart thats a store man. then she turns and explains to you that bobby is a family friend and the only other adult male the child knows who wears a nose ring. Which of piagets 4 stages was the child in the example?
When the child mistakenly identified the store clerk as "Bobby'", he showed evidence that he was attempting to existing scheme. The mother's corrective feedback may have helped the child to_____that ongoing scheme. The new person according to knowledge contained in his:______.
a. assimilate; accommodate.
b. accommodate; assimilate.
c. assimilate; assimilate.
d. accommodate; accommodate.

Answer 1

Answer:

a. assimilate; accommodate.

Explanation:

In psychology, these two terms i.e, assimilation and accommodation was proposed by one of the famous psychologists named Jean Piaget in his theory of cognitive development.

Assimilation: It is defined as a way through which an individual tends to absorb new knowledge. According to Piaget, assimilation is described as one of the cognitive processes through which an individual takes a piece of new experience and information and then incorporate or fits them into his or her already existing world view or ideas.

Accommodation: According to Piaget, the term accommodation is described as a process through which it is being explained that what occurs when new experiences and information causes an individual to modify or alter his or her existing schemas. So, instead of making the new information to fit into his or her pre-existing schema, he or she changes the schema to accommodate the new experiences and information.