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accommodation  

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  • Accommodation is the process of changing a current cognitive schema to include new information.Jean Piaget (1896–1980) proposed that children learn by adaptation, which includes assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation involves bringing new information into the mind. [Source: Encyclopedia of School Psychology; Accommodation]

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