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PIAGETIAN TERMINOLOGY OBJECTIVES: After reading this program, you should be able to define and give examples of: 1. adaption 2. functioning 3. assimilation 4. accommodation 5. invariants 6. structure 7. schemes 8. stages 9. content Fold a sheet of paper or use a strip of cardboard to cover the answer, which are given in the right hand margin. With these answers covered, read frame 1 and write your answeř in the blank provided. Move the paper down so as to check your response before proceeding to frame 2 DIRECTIONS: adaptation 1. Jean Piaget has developed a theory that deals with human adaptation. It is a,developmental theory of human 2. As a child leains to égpe with this environment and to deal adapting 3. Adaptation therefore involves interacting with the environment. interaction with it effectively, he can be said to be The process of adaptation is one of organism-environment to it. 4. One of the central features of Piaget's developmental theory is adaption · that is attempts to explain , through interactions. previously learned 5. Interaction takes place through the interplay of two complementary processes: one involves reacting to the environment in terms of a previously learned response. This process is called assimilation. Assimilation involves a response. already learned, he is said to be assimilating that object to his . previous learning. For example, when a child sucks a pacifier, he is 6. Whenever a child uses an object for some activity that he has assimilating the pacifier to the activity of sucking. A child is given a paper doll. He looks at it curiously, and then puts it in his mouth and eats it. He hasthe doll to the activity of eating assimilated 7·

Answer 1

1. Adaptation - it is the process of being adapted .

2. Functioning - it is the process of working in a proper way .

3. Assimilation - is a form of adaptation in which an experience in the environment is incorporated into an existing scheme .

4. Accommodation- is a form of adaptation in which an existing scheme is modified and a new one is created in response to experience .

5. Schemes - is the understanding of a concept , the understanding in our mind related to an idea .

Fill in the blanks :-

1. Adaptation is the answer . Jean Piaget has developed a theory that deals with human adaptation . It is a developmental theory of human adaptation.

2. Adapting is the correct answer. As a child learns to cope with this environment and to deal with it effectively ,he can be said to be adapting to it .

3. Interaction is the correct answer . Adaptation therefore involves interacting with the the environment . The process of adaptation is one of organism - environment interaction.

4. Adaptation is the correct answer . One of the central features of Piaget development theory is that it attempts to explain adaptation through interaction .