6/28/2004
desjardins/honig                                            COGNITION
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Piaget Concepts
•Assimilation
–Taking in new information
•Accommodation
–Revising and readjusting the cognitive structure for the new content
•Adaptation
–Change that results from assimilation and accommodation
•Schema
–A cognitive structure
–pattern of action or thought
–A complex concept of motor and internalized thought process
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