Question Bank [2022] — Psychology STD 12 Commerce / Arts — Question

Learning is a complex process. There are many processes of learning. The process of learning by assimilation and accommodation is explained as follows:

Jean Piaget explained that we learn many things by assimilation and accommodation. Jean Piaget is of the opinion that on the basis of the new experiences or new information we keep refining the existing concepts that we have. For example, when a child forms a concept of a cow, he/she extracts some general rules or characteristics to form a concept of a cow. But when he encounters a buffalo, he/she notes the differences between the cow and buffalo and forms a separate concept of a buffalo. This process of forming and refining our concepts on the basis of the similarities and differences is called learning by assimilation and accomodation.