Process of Adaptation involving Assimilation, Accommodation, Equilibrium and Disequilibrium.

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Process of Adaptation involving Assimilation, Accommodation, Equilibrium and Disequilibrium.
  1. Adaptation.
    1. Piaget referred to the process by which a child's schemas are developed to fit their experience of the world as adaptation.
      1. As each child's knowledge is adapted to take account of his or her own unique experience and environment, each child will develop a different understanding of the world.
      2. According to Piaget, adaptation takes place through the processes of assimilation and accommodation.
        1. Process:
          1. Assimilation > Equilibrium > New Situation > Disequilibrium > Accommodation.
        2. Equilibrium and Disequilibrium
          1. Definitions:
            1. Equilibrium
              1. A state of cognitive balance.
                1. A situation in which a new experience can easily be understood using existing schemas.
                  1. Example: The child can deal with the situation (the world).
              2. Disequilibrium
                1. A state of cognitive imbalance that occurs when incoming information conflicts with our pre-existing understanding of the world. Leads to accommodation.
                  1. A situation in which a new experience cannot easily be understood using existing schemas.
                    1. Example: The baby's sucking schema is not appropriate for solid food - a big mess is made.
              3. Equilibrium > We understand our world.
                1. Disequilibrium > We do not understand our world.
                2. Assimilation and Accommodation.
                  1. Assimilation.
                    1. Definition:
                      1. Adding to an existing schema or applying an existing schema to a new situation.
                      2. This process, is the process whereby new objects, situations or ideas are understood in terms of the schemas the child already processes. The world is 'fitted in' to what the child already knows.
                        1. Example: The baby uses it's innate sucking schema to feed on all nipples, mother's or baby bottles.
                        2. An example, Sam has learned to play with toys that have wheels using a pull-along dog that he has in his toy cupboard at home. He has developed a 'pull-along' schema. When he goes to nursery he will use the same schema with a pull-along duck. In this way, the duck has been assimilated into Sam's 'pull-along' schema, and his knowledge of the world has been adapted and consolidated in the light of experience.
                          1. In other situations new information cannot so easily be absorbed into an existing schema.
                            1. When confronted with a wind-up tractor, Sam may try to use his 'pull-along' schema, but this will not work.
                              1. According to Piaget, when a child assimilates an object or situation using a schema that does not quite fit that situation, the child experiences disequilibrium. In this case, disequilibrium is caused by the fact that the tractor will not move forward in the way that Sam expects it to.
                                1. Balance or equilibrium can be restored by a process which Piaget called accommodation.
                          2. Other Examples:
                            1. Using a grown-up spoon in the same way as a baby spoon.
                              1. Holding a pen in the same way as a pencil.
                                1. Using the same action to put on a pair of shorts as to put on a pair of trousers.
                              2. Accommodation.
                                1. Definition:
                                  1. Changing an existing schema to or developing a new schema in order to deal effectively with a new situation.
                                  2. This is the process whereby the existing schemas have to be modified to fit new situations, objects or information. The existing schemas are expanded or new ones are created.
                                    1. Example: The baby has to modify it's feeding schema so it can use all beakers and the cups, instead of just nipples.
                                    2. Following the Sam example, in this case, Sam will need to develop a new 'wind-up' schema in order to get the tractor to move along.
                                      1. Having developed a new schema to cope with the new experience, Sam is once again in a state of equilibrium.
                                        1. Note that his cognitive ability has also been extended because he now has two schemas for dealing with toys with wheels, a 'pull-along' schema and a 'wind-up' schema, instead of just one.
                                      2. Other Examples:
                                        1. A spoon grip needs to be modified to hold a fork.
                                          1. A pencil grip needs to be modified to hold a paintbrush.
                                            1. A sucking schema needs to be modified the first time a baby is presented with solid food.
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