Jonas knows that animals with fur, pointy ears, a tail, four legs, and that say "woof" are called "dogs." He saw a new animal an
d thought it was a dog until it "meowed." Jonas' parents said this was a "cat." Jonas could now distinguish between dog and cat depending on the sound the animal made. This revision of Jonas' schema of a "dog" BEST illustrates:
It is the term which is used to describe the situations and the scenario when a new and nascent information or new experiences cause an individual to modify the existing schemes of the individual. It was developed by psychologist, Jean Piaget. It states that rather than making the new experiences or the information fit into the developed and the existing schemes, the individual change the scheme so that in order to accommodate these new experiences and information.
<u>In the given case study, This revision of Jonas' schema of a "dog" BEST illustrates accommodation.</u>
