Assimilate or Accommodate
When we are exposed to new information, we adapt to it in one of two ways:
- Assimilation — We use our existing base of knowledge to understand a new object or situation.
- Accommodation — We realize that our existing base of knowledge does not work & we change it to deal with a new situation.
Jean Piaget, one of the greatest psychologists, showed that we grow our knowledge when we transform our thinking to be able to accommodate external knowledge that doesn’t fit.
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