accommodation

Examples of accommodation in the following topics:

• Accommodation

  • Accommodation refers to the process of changing internal mental structures to provide consistency with external reality.
  • Obviously, accommodation influences assimilation, and vice versa.
  • As reality is assimilated, structures are accommodated.
  • Therefore, Angie can see herself in the picture and still exist in present time; in this way, Angie can accommodate her internal mental structures to her external reality.

• Introduction

  • However, this chapter will discuss four of Piaget's key concepts that are applicable to learning at any age: assimilation, accommodation, equilibration, and schemas.

• Conclusion

  • Cognitive development is a complex process comprising three principal concepts affecting the development process: assimilation, accommodation and equilibration.

• Two Major Principles

  • Assimilation and accommodation are both part of the adaptation process.
  • Moreover, mental structures accommodate themselves to new, unusual, and constantly changing aspects of the external environment.
  • The intent is to give you an alternative way of learning about assimilation, accommodation, equilibration and schemas.

• Equilibration

  • This internal attempt to make sense of external events according to one's internal events by achieving balance between assimilation and accommodation enables Angie to form new internal mental structures through which she will further evaluate her external world in the future.
  • Equilibration involves both assimilation and accommodation.
  • When external reality does not match with the logical internal mental structures (disequilibria), equilibration occurs as an effort to bring balance between assimilation and accommodation as the person adapts more sophisticated internal mental structures.
  • Human beings continually attempt to make sense of the world around them by assimilating new information into pre-existing mental schemes and accommodating thought processes as necessary.

• Americans with Disabilities Act

  • Since she uses a wheelchair, she requests a reasonable accommodation.
  • The employer is responsible for moving the location of the interview to a reasonable accommodation.
  • The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications, and governmental activities.
  • The Department of Justice enforces regulations governing public accommodations and state and local government services.
  • ACSI opposed the Act primarily because the ADA labeled religious institutions public accommodations, and thus would have required churches to make costly structural changes to ensure access for all.

• Schemata

  • The process of assimilation involves attempts to organize existing schemata for better understanding events in the external world, whereas accommodation involves changing pre-existing schemata to adapt to a new situation.

• Piaget

  • When studying the field of education Piaget identified two processes: accommodation and assimilation.
  • Accommodation, unlike assimilation, is the process of taking one's environment and new information and altering one's pre-existing schemas in order to fit in the new information.
  • Analyze the differences between accommodation and assimilation, in relation to Piaget's stages

• The Expanded Octet

  • Although the energy of empty 3d-orbitals is ordinarily higher than that of the 4s orbital, that difference is small and the additional d orbitals can accommodate more electrons.
  • For atoms in the fourth period and beyond, higher d orbitals can be used to accommodate additional shared pairs beyond the octet.
  • The relative energies of the different kinds of atomic orbital reveal that energy gaps become smaller as the principal energy level quantum number (n) increases, and the energetic cost of using these higher orbitals to accommodate bonding electrons becomes smaller.

• Scientific Method

  • If a theory can accommodate all possible results then it is not a scientific theory.
  • Instead, the theory will probably be modified to accommodate the inconsistent finding.
  • If the theory has to be modified over and over to accommodate new findings, the theory generally becomes less and less parsimonious.